English Explanatory Dictionary

Lenz's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. a law of electromagnetic induction which states that an electromotive force, induced in a conductor, is always in such a direction that the current it would produce would oppose the change which caused it; it is a form of the law of conservation of energy

Word forms

Lenz's law

Etymology

From Heinrich Lenz, German physicist.

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