Fluxgate
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fluxgate is a noun meaning (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
Meaning
(physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
Word Forms
- fluxgates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include magnetometer, magnetometers, ferrofluid, fluxon, flux, induction.
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