fluxgate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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

fluxgate fluxgates

Etymology

From flux + gate.

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