How to Use single-phase in a Sentence

single-phase

adjective
  • Engineers must also choose between single-phase and two-phase methods within cold plate cooling.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The development is designed as a single-phase project — all construction and public improvements would happen at the same time.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • This tiny snail’s shell combines hardness, toughness and energy dissipation in a way that very few single-phase materials can.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • All told, our single-phase silicon carbide SST was a third the size of its conventional counterpart.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • Our work on single-phase SSTs motivated us to extend our efforts to build a three-phase SST.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2017
  • This approach removes heat more efficiently than air or single-phase liquid cooling while consuming no additional energy for heat transport.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Porsche will offer a single-phase, 48-ampere version for the United States after buyers see their first Cayennes in mid-2026, and a three-phase, 16-A system in Europe.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
  • As Business Insider noted, the service abandoned an earlier two-phase delivery plan in 2020 and opted instead for a single-phase approach that would see the carrier delivered with full capability to operate F-35C stealth fighters.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026

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