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ppearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.

The angle expressing phase relation.

or converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.

degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and the phases salt, ice, saturated solution, and vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in…

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

The French bean, or kidney bean.

Without a phase, or visible form. [R.] "A phaseless and increasing gloom." Poe.

A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.

Same as Inosite.

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

Having many phases; specif. (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.

A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.

Same as Diphase, Diphaser.

A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky.

A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the…