misphase

verb

1. To put or become out of phase.

   “We can misphase our currents in the conductors and add them, or obtain the same final result in still other ways.”

   “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.”

   “Then, he must misphase two klystrons, adjusting by equal and opposite amounts until the beam energy is correct.”

noun

1. The act or state of misphasing.

   “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.”

   “[…] 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.”

   “The misphase must have caused an overload.”