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magnetometer

Word definitions for magnetometer in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnetometer \Mag`net*om"e*ter\, n. [Magneto- + -meter: cf. F. magn['e]tom[`e]tre.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields [syn: gaussmeter ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context physics English) An instrument used to measure the intensity and direction of a magnetic field, especially at points on the Earth's surface. n. (context physics English) An instrument used to measure the intensity and direction of a magnetic ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Magnetometers are measurement instruments used for two general purposes: to measure the magnetization of a magnetic material like a ferromagnet , or to measure the strength and, in some cases, the direction of the magnetic field at a point in space. The ...

Usage examples of magnetometer.

He sat behind me and watched the magnetometer recorder and scintillometer, and got them repaired when they blew up.

The hardbody sonar array, the seismometers, tomographic systems, and the proton magnetometers must be assembled before work begins.

Behind the creeper two trailers followed, one containing reserve supplies, and the other automatic mapping and prospecting equipment such as magnetometers, radar topological plotters, laser-spectroscope samplers, et cetera.

It did not contain enough metal to set off the courthouse magnetometers and it recorded not to tape but to memory cards, which were downloaded to a computer for replay.

The magnetometers showed a dangerous new magnetic flux around a rock near the center of Nowhere.

Whenever a rock appears or vanishes, our magnetometers record violent magnetic storms.

ITC, they explained to anyone who inquired, was a company that made superconducting quantum devices for magnetometers and medical scanners.

Additional Sites Surveyed Merrimack Many magnetometer contacts around site where famous Confederate ironclad was blown up and destroyed off Craney Island, Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1862.

Instruments--infrared sensors, neutrino detectors, magnetometers, gravitometers, atmosphere sniffers, a hundred kinds of robot bloodhound--would expose the place at once.

In this trial, Ingo was able to psychically describe and affect the operation of a highly shielded superconducting magnetometer buried in the basement of the Stanford University physics building.

The following few hours became an enjoyable blur of information about latex molding techniques, aquameters, nuclear resonance magnetometers and sonar scanning.

As he'd thought, he had carefully degaussed the magnetometer, checked for residual magnetism, and recorded it carefully in the notebook.