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rephasing

rephasing is the present participle and gerund of rephase.

Noun

rephasing (countable and uncountable, plural rephasings)

  1. A restoration of the phase of a system.
  2. A change in the timing of a phased system (such as traffic lights).
  3. A rescheduling; especially, a rescheduling of debt repayments or other obligations.
    • Early in 1993, ATN [[[w:Atlantic Tele-Network|Atlantic Tele-Network]]] requested and obtained from the GOG [Government of Guyana] a rephasing of the programme. ATN made this request on the basis of suppliers’ delays, and theft and willful destruction of property locally. Thus, whereas the scope of...1998, Gene O. Evelyn, “The Divestiture of the Guyana Telecommunications Corporation”, in Deryck R. Brown (editor), Evaluation, Learning and Caribbean Development, Canoe Press, page 430
    • In addition, the [Executive] Board [of the International Monetary Fund] also approved a rephasing of the country's future disbursements into five equal amounts of SDR 27.6 million (about US$40.7 million).2005 June 9, “IMF Executive Board Completes Second Review Under Peru’s Stand-By Arrangement”, International Monetary Fund Press Release No. 05/137, reproduced in IMF Country Report No. 07/110 (2007...

Meaning of rephase

Verb

rephase (third-person singular simple present rephases, present participle rephasing, simple past and past participle rephased)

  1. To return to being in phase.
  2. To revise the phasing of something.
    • The traffic lights have been rephased.

Forms of rephasing

pluralrephasings

Origin of rephasing

From rephase + -ing. The noun follows from the verb.

Questions about rephasing

What does rephasing mean?
Rephasing means a restoration of the phase of a system.
What is rephasing the present participle and gerund of?
Rephasing is the present participle and gerund of rephase.
What part of speech is rephasing?
Rephasing is a noun.
What is the plural of rephasing?
The plural of rephasing is rephasings.

Words near rephasing in the dictionary

  1. Rephaite
  2. Rephaites
  3. rephase
  4. rephased
  5. rephases
  6. rephasing
  7. rephasings
  8. rephonemicization
  9. rephonemicizations
  10. rephonemicize
  11. rephonemicized

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