quarter-phase

[ kwawr-ter-feyz ]

adjectiveElectricity.
  1. differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.

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How to use quarter-phase in a sentence

  • The several phases may be entirely independent, and such was the case with the early polyphase quarter-phase alternators.

  • Teyr and her moon Luhin, both in quarter-phase from here, moved steadily apart in the viewers.

    Tulan | Carroll Mather Capps

British Dictionary definitions for quarter-phase

quarter-phase

adjective
  1. another term for two-phase

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