misphase

present singular third person misphases · participle present misphasing · participle past misphased · past misphased

1. To put or become out of phase.

   Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct.

   1991, Richard B. Neal, The Stanford Two-mile Accelerator - Volume 1, page 541

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   We can misphase our currents in the conductors and add them, or obtain the same final result in still other ways.

   1920, Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, page 225

   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.

   1937, The Marconi Review - Volumes 6-8, page 4

plural misphases

1. The act or state of misphasing.

   The misphase must have caused an overload.

   2013, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks, page 40

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   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.

   1915, Engineering and Boiler House Review - Volume 29, page 130

   […] 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.

   1950, Alan Wilfrid Ladner, Charles Robert Stoner, Short Wave Wireless Communication, page 323