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Direction indicator of the earth's magnetic field
Answer for the clue "Direction indicator of the earth's magnetic field ", 8 letters:
fluxgate
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n. (context physics English) 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
Usage examples of fluxgate.
In the nose of the flying eye there was contained a small detector element called a fluxgate, kept parallel to the magnetic field of the earth by a gyro mechanism.