phantom
/ˈfæntəm/ noun C2- A ghost or apparition.
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; an image that appears only in the mind; an illusion or delusion.
- A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.
- A test object that reproduces the characteristics of human tissue.
Plural phantoms
From the library
He then saw the great aqueducts, those stone phantoms which he had before remarked, only then they were on the right hand, now they were on the left.
Again the phantom city burns;
The phantom armies marching go!
Our phantom voices haunt the air
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