misphase
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To put or become out of phase.
noun
The act or state of misphasing.
Example Sentences
- "We can misphase our currents in the conductors and add them, or obtain the same final result in still other ways."
- "Alternatively if we still desire to feed the system from the No. 1 end, we must misphase each succeeding aerial by 360 degrees minus the space phase as this is the same as giving the next aerial a lagging current."
- "Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct."
- "Furthermore, no discriminating gear can protect the generator in the event of a misphase, and it is well known that the strain on the generator may be greater in the event of a misphase than if the generator short-circuited directly across its terminals."
- "[…] as we tilt the wire more and more into the wave, although the space-phase is tending to counteract the misphase due to the wire length, the pickup in each elemental length is getting smaller."
- "The misphase must have caused an overload."