polyphase
See also: polyphasé
English
Adjective
polyphase (comparative more polyphase, superlative most polyphase)
- (electricity) Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
- 1963 November, “British achievements in electric traction”, in Modern Railways, page 313:
- In the past there had been several attempts to embody in locomotives some form of rotating machine to convert single-phase a.c. at supply frequency to polyphase a.c. at variable frequency, in order to achieve the necessary variable speed characteristic.
- (physics) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter
Derived terms
- polyphase circuit
- polyphase coil
- polyphase matrix
- polyphase meter
- polyphase quadrature filter
- polyphase rectifier
- polyphase synchronous generator
- polyphase system
- polyphase transformer
- polyphase wattmeter
Translations
of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents
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of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter
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