Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to two alternating currents with phases differing by 90°.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Two-cycle; having two phases or stages in a complete cycle, usually an expansion and a compression phase.
- In electricity, of or pertaining to an alternating-current generator which produces two currents differing in phase by half a cycle, or to a circuit carrying such currents, or to a motor, transformer, or any electrical device used on a two-phase circuit. See
quarter-phase .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) Same as
diphase ,diphaser .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having two
alternating currents whosephases differ by 90°
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Examples
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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NEW DELHI --State-run Steel Authority of India plans to launch the first of its two-phase follow-on share sale June 14, Chairman C.S. Verma said Monday.
Steel Authority to Launch Share Sale on June 14 Rajesh Roy of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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As part of the deal, the TSE plans to buy as much as 66.6% of OSE's shares in a two-phase process that will keep the OSE shares listed.
Japan Exchanges Look to Speed Up Merger Kana Inagaki 2011
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Rep. Boehner R., Ohio briefed Republican lawmakers on his two-phase plan to trim as much as $3 trillion from the U.S. deficit and lift the debt ceiling.
Downgrade Threat Looms Tom Lauricella 2011
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He said the two short-listed companies refused to abide by the guidelines of mobilizing equipment and workforce within a month of the award of the contract, and that the companies wanted to develop the block in a single stage rather than Coal India's plan for a two-phase development.
Coal India Scraps Mozambique Tender Saurabh Chaturvedi 2012
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The NRC has announced a two-phase response plan to Fukushima: a 90-day assessment followed by a more in-depth review.
Elliott Negin: The Tale of Nuclear Disasters Foretold Elliott Negin 2011
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