gyrophase

English

Etymology

gyro- +‎ phase

Noun

gyrophase (plural gyrophases)

1. (physics) The angle in the perpendicular plane between a reference direction the gyroradius vector.
   • 2016, Cesare Tronci, “From liquid crystal models to the guiding-center theory of magnetized plasmas”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

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