three-phase

English

Adjective

three-phase (not comparable)

1. (electricity) Using three separate alternating currents of the same voltage at different phases.
   • 1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: Italy”, in Modern Railways, page 62:

     By the end of the year all new electrification projects were virtually complete and conversion of the remaining three-phase 3,700V a.c. sections to 3,000V d.c. was well in hand.

Related terms

• single-phase
• triphasic
• uniphasic

Translations

using three separate alternating currents

• Bulgarian: трифазен (trifazen)
• Finnish: kolmivaiheinen
• French: triphasé (fr)
• German: dreiphasig, Dreiphasen-
• Greek: τριφασικός (el) (trifasikós)
• Manx: tree-phaasagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trefase

  Nynorsk: trefase

• Romanian: trifazat (ro)
• Russian: трёхфа́зный (ru) (trjoxfáznyj)

References

• “three-phase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.