half-cycle

Once a high frequency current is flowing back and forth between the tip and the skin note: at any given half-cycle there is not much charge transferred; but it is transferred in a very short time then IR heating is part of the phenomena taking place in tissue.

Freshwater: A Bonsell in the offing? - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Exactly how much of this overall 50,000yr warming half-cycle you choose to call an ‘interglacial’ is a matter of semantics.

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In the first half-cycle, under the increasing influence of Strife, a cosmos and then animals come to be.

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

Moreover, the dominant influence of Love marks a cosmic half-cycle that is the opposite of the cosmic half-cycle marked by the dominant influence of Strife.

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

The succeeding half-cycle being of opposite direction will tend to oppose the magnetism of the core.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

The best knowledge of the action of such a telephone as is shown in Fig. 1 leads to the conclusion that a half-cycle of alternating current is produced by an inward stroke of the diaphragm and a second half-cycle of alternating current by the succeeding outward stroke, these half-cycles flowing in opposite directions.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

Assume one complete cycle of current to pass through the line and also through another such device as in Fig. 1 and that the first half-cycle is of such direction as to increase the permanent magnetism of the core.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

The diaphragm will throb inward during the half-cycle of current.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

The preceding half-cycle, great in Rome under Augustus and Tiberius, had been a time, first of puppet emperors, then of illegalism and usurpation, then of civil war.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

Thenceforward the Parthian kingdom was, as you might say, a fact in nature; though until a half-cycle had passed, a small and unimportant one, engaged mostly in reinvogorating the native Turanianism of the Parthians with fresh

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908