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phasor
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phasor [′fāz·ər]
(physics)
A rotating line used to represent a sinusoidally varying quantity; the length of the line represents the magnitude of the quantity, and its angle with thex-axis at any instant represents the phase.
Any quantity (such as impedance or admittance) which is a complex number.
(solid-state physics)
A low-energy collective excitation of the conduction electrons in a metal, corresponding to a slowly varying phase modulation of a charge-density wave.


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