phase shiftn.

1927 Wireless World 1 June 686/2 In order to give a high-grade telephone line such an extended characteristic, special equipment for the equalisation of attenuation and of phase shift had to be devised.

1936 R. S. Glasgow Princ. Radio Engin. vii. 146 Phase-shift distortion is the change in the relative phase relations of the different frequency components contained in the signal voltage.

1960 Science 1 Jan. 34 Cultures of Drosophila, when exposed to light, showed phase shifts dependent upon the time in their daily hatching rhythm at which light occurred.

1967 Times 19 Oct. 24/6 ‘The phase shift of skills in employment’—which in present conditions means the trend for the range of complex job functions to expand more rapidly than the demand for labour as a whole.

1976 Gramophone Feb. 1398/1 Either we must accept some loss of loudness of rearward sources in mono playback, or a certain amount of phase-shift between the signals coming from the two loudspeakers in stereo.

1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. xi. 289 Transplantation studies were at once a contributor to the stimulus for this phase-shift in immunological interests and one of the beneficiaries of the new movement.

1993 Nature 18 Nov. 209/3 The small phase shifts that electrons undergo when they circumnavigate the magnetic flux lines.