misphase

The act or state of misphasing.

Noun

  1. The act or state of misphasing.
    • 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...
    • […] 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...
    • The misphase must have caused an overload. - 2013, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks, page 40:

Origin

From mis- + phase.

Forms

misphases

Verb

  1. To put or become out of phase.
    • 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. -...
    • 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:

Forms

misphases misphasing misphased