The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multiphase \Mul"ti*phase\, a. [Multi- + phase.] Having many phases; specif. (Elec.), pertaining to, or designating, a generator producing, or any system conveying or utilizing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. That generates, or employs, multiple alternating current supplies with the same voltage but different phase angles
WordNet
adj. of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle [syn: polyphase]
Usage examples of "multiphase".
Ken gestured agreement, but hung back as the mechanic cut the test controller into the main outside beam circuittwo multiphase signals could be handled as easily as one on the beam, and both torpedoes would be close enough together so that one beam would suffice.
The multiphase device discovered nothing indicative of weapons, propellants, or explosives.
It photographed the base with a multiphase, military intelligence camcorder.
It was like a multiphase image that resolved only when you looked at it in the correct focus.
Six multiphase antennae were unfolding from their sheaths around the middle of the cargo section, flat ash-gray rectangles measuring twenty meters down their long edge.
They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion.
Instead, multiphase projectiles -- the high-powered artillery shells recommended by the Great Convention to restrict collateral damage -- would do the job.
And I, of course, did a lot of looking at her, in all the multiphased ways we electronically stored intelligences have.
Under his multiphased scrutiny, the metropolis looked like an elaborate mechanism, designed and constructed with utilitarian force.
It was an intimidating complex of hair-fine antennae and multiphased flat-panel sensors.
If our block in his mind doesn’t hold—if Culluket recognizes it and gets other redactors of the Host to join in a multiphase probe—Stein is going to open up!
One ran direct recordings of Eric Born's observed activities, one showed stylized representations of the results of those activities, whether or not direct visual data were available, and one showed single-phase graphic enhancement of the multiphase information.