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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Two-phase.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In electricity, pertaining to a system of electrical distribution in which two alternating currents are used which differ in phase by a quarter of a period, so that, at equal intervals of time, first the first current reverses its direction, then the other, then again the first, and so on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of electricity supply Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle;
two-phase .
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quarter- + phase
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