successive phase

collocation in English

meaningsofsuccessiveandphase

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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səkˈses.ɪv/
us
/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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phase
noun[C]
uk
/feɪz/
us
/feɪz/
any stage in a series of events or in a process ...
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(Definition ofsuccessiveandphasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Each cam was positioned on a common camshaft, extending the length of the wall, with asuccessivephasedifference of 90".
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Thus, particularly high or lowsuccessivephasedifferences produce long metachronal waves.
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In addition, a number of practical considerations may be used to constrain the opposite andsuccessivephasedifferences of the producer.
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Designers must repeat the process in eachsuccessivephaseof the design process until the designers arrive at a solution that they deem appropriate.
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Although during motion stripe patterns go throughsuccessivephasereversals, the resulting response is not a second harmonic but agrees with the fundamental stimulus frequency.
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However, in eachsuccessivephaseit becomes harder and harder to operate it fairly.
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A handful of cases will suffice to illustrate the increased use of energy density among a spectrum of systems in successive phases of cosmic evolution.
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For if only the present moment and its occupants exist, then successive phases of a process are never coexistent.
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The successive phases of the disease entail differences in emphasis, although there are individuals for whom all modalities are relevant at all stages.
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Manufacturing has undergone various successive phases of development in its over two hundred years of existence.
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So the second cycle will go further than the first, and the process will continue, eachsuccessivephasebuilding on and improving on what went before.
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How are geometric principles of information processing design applied at the successive phases of representational change?
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Now if you look back into the history of the last four or five centuries we see that wars have taken three successive phases.
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An economy programme in two successive phases has been put under way.
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Incidentally, those exceptions have been consistently maintained over the successive phases of the policy.
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It involved four successive phases of policy misjudgments between 1986 and 1990.
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It has been verified that there were at least five successive phases of building. 1.
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