phase angle

1. 1.

   a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle

   Synonymsphase

   Broaderpoint

   Part ofcycle

Questions about phase angle

What does phase angle mean?

phase angle means "a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle".

What is another word for phase angle?

Close synonyms include phase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phase angle a common word?

phase angle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.