The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyphase \Pol"y*phase\, a. [Poly- + phase.] (Elec.) Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context electricity English) Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase 2 (context physics English) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter
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: multiphase]
Wikipedia
Polyphase may refer to:
- Polyphase matrix, in signal processing
- Polyphase system, in electrical engineering
- Polyphasic sleep
- Polyphase quadrature filter
Usage examples of "polyphase".
The artificial gravity had been weakened within these rubbery walls, studded with projections of polyphase matter of various sizes.
About halfway across the Gulf lay a peculiar spacetime formation, an excrescence of naturally modified matter, some of it polyphase, which at one time or another had borne a variety of different names.
Machines on the surface dug what looked to Jory like simple trenches, and unwound spools of the equivalent of barbed wire, long strands of polyphase matter, each displaying a quasi intelligence on the level of that of an ant or bee, programmed to entrap or at least delay berserker landing machines when they appeared.
On the bridge of the flag carrier Venture, a dozen Solarian bodies, bulked up with armor, lay strapped into combat chairs with ligatures of polyphase matter.
Seven Galaxies rite tonight and Lagosta wants you to help out plugging in the polyphase generator.
He was especially gratified to learn that many British installations appeared to favour his polyphase system, which was not the case here in the USA.
The essence of what he said was that he had long ago established that the most efficient way of transmitting his polyphase electrical current was to boost it to high voltages and direct it along high-tension cables.
The precise mechanism by which the condensed-circuit computer operates is, for Earth scientists, still a matter of conjecture, although it has been suggested that the control, by a very rapid three-dimensional scanning process, alternately determines, and detects, certain finely-balanced fundamental properties of the individual atoms of the polyphase crystal.
The boxes rolled along one after the other, their wheels appearing to be of polyphase matter, not spinning so much as undergoing continuous smooth deformity.
On the bridge of the flag carrier Venture, a dozen Solarian bodies, bulked up with armor, lay strapped into combat chairs with ligatures of polyphase matter.