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gyrophase

noun

Etymology

From gyro- + phase.

  1. derived from φάσις
  2. borrowed from phasis
  3. prefixed as gyrophase — “gyro + phase”

Definitions

  1. The angle in the perpendicular plane between a reference direction the gyroradius vector.

    • The latter is eventually averaged over the gyrophase to produce Littlejohn's guiding-center equations.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gyrophase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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