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ASTATIC COILS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arrangement of coils used in sensitive electrical instruments; the coils are arranged to give zero resultant external magnetic field when a current passes through them and to have zero electromotive force induced in them by an external magnetic field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("astatic coils" is a kind of...):
coil (reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit)
Holonyms ("astatic coils" is a part of...):
astatic galvanometer (has a moving magnet and astatic coils arranged to cancel the effect of the Earth's magnetic field)
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