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LORENTZ FORCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field
Example:
the Lorentz force can be used to suspend a current-carrying object between two magnets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("Lorentz force" is a kind of...):
force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)
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