"misphase" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920, Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and of Electricians, page 225",
          "text": "We can misphase our currents in the conductors and add them, or obtain the same final result in still other ways.",
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          "ref": "1937, The Marconi Review - Volumes 6-8, page 4",
          "text": "Alternatively if we still desire to feed the system from the No. 1 end, we must misphase each succeeding aerial by 360 degrees minus the space phase as this is the same as giving the next aerial a lagging current.",
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          "ref": "1991, Richard B. Neal, The Stanford Two-mile Accelerator - Volume 1, page 541",
          "text": "Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct.",
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        "To put or become out of phase."
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          "text": "Furthermore, no discriminating gear can protect the generator in the event of a misphase, and it is well known that the strain on the generator may be greater in the event of a misphase than if the generator short-circuited directly across its terminals.",
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          "ref": "1950, Alan Wilfrid Ladner, Charles Robert Stoner, Short Wave Wireless Communication, page 323",
          "text": "[…] as we tilt the wire more and more into the wave, although the space-phase is tending to counteract the misphase due to the wire length, the pickup in each elemental length is getting smaller.",
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          "ref": "2013, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks, page 40",
          "text": "The misphase must have caused an overload.",
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