"three-phase" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} three-phase (not comparable)
  1. (electricity) Using three separate alternating currents of the same voltage at different phases. Wikipedia link: Three-phase electric power Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Electricity, Three Related terms: single-phase, triphasic, uniphasic Translations (using three separate alternating currents): трифазен (trifazen) (Bulgarian), kolmivaiheinen (Finnish), triphasé (French), dreiphasig (German), Dreiphasen- (German), τριφασικός (trifasikós) (Greek), tree-phaasagh (Manx), trefase (Norwegian Bokmål), trefase (Norwegian Nynorsk), trifazat (Romanian), трёхфа́зный (trjoxfáznyj) (Russian)

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