three-phase
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English
Adjective
three-phase (not comparable)
- (electricity) Using three separate alternating currents of the same voltage at different phases.
- 1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: Italy”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
- By the end of the year all new electrification projects were virtually complete and conversion of the remaining three-phase 3,700V a.c. sections to 3,000V d.c. was well in hand.
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Translations
using three separate alternating currents
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References
- “three-phase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.