single-phase

single-phase

English

Adjective

single-phase (not comparable)

  1. (electricity) Using an alternating current in which all voltages supplied are in the same phase.
    • 1960 February, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotives for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 123:
      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.

Verb

single-phase (third-person singular simple present single-phases, present participle single-phasing, simple past and past participle single-phased)

  1. (electricity, by extension) To use such a current.
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