Definitions for magnetic field

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

magnet′ic field′(n.)

  1. a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.

    Category: Electricity and Magnetism, Physics

  2. a vector quantity defined by the force exerted on a given object at each point in such a region.

    Category: Physics

Origin of magnetic field:

1835–45

Princeton's WordNet

  1. magnetic field, magnetic flux, flux(noun)

    the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle

Wiktionary

  1. magnetic field(Noun)

    a condition in the space around a magnet or electric current in which there is a detectable magnetic force and two magnetic poles are present


Translations for magnetic field

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

magnetic field(verb)

the area in which the pull of a magnet, or thing acting like a magnet, is felt

the earth's magnetic field.

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