Out-of-phase meaning

A signal that has suffered phase distortion so that the sinusoidal waveform has been unintentionally altered in phase, or periodic angle. See also phase and sine wave.
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Someone who is outof-sync or out-of-step with the normal world, whatever that is. Such people may be crazy as loons, but they seem to get by, and some even thrive, in spite of it. See also normal.
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Not in phase.
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Sentence Examples

  • The levers received their motion directly from the engine crankshaft, one being 90 degrees out of phase with the other.

  • For a normal field, the commensurability oscillations are weak and out of phase for transport in the different cleavage directions.

  • pendulums of two clocks hung on a wall close together would swing 180° out of phase.

  • quadrature encoder should provide square-wave signals that are 90 degrees out of phase with each other.

  • An ideal quadrature encoder should provide square-wave signals that are 90 degrees out of phase with each other.

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