fluxgate

English

Etymology

From flux +‎ gate.

Noun

fluxgate (plural fluxgates)

  1. (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.
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