single-phase

adj, verb — 2 senses

single-phase

adj

1

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Using an alternating current in which all voltages supplied are in the same phase.

The four traction motors are connected permanently in parallel. They are six-pole series wound machines specially developed for operation on a rectified 50-cycle single-phase supply.1960 February 23, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 123:

single-phase

verb

1

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Broadly To use such a current.

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