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magnetometer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun magnetometer has 1 sense
- magnetometer(n = noun.artifact) gaussmeter - a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields; Array is a kind of meter
CIDE DICTIONARY
magnetometer, n. [Magneto- + -meter: cf. F. magnétomètre.].
An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
magnetometer, n. an instrument measuring magnetic forces, esp. the earth's magnetism.
Derivative
magnetometry n.
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