fluxgate

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

Similar words

magnetometer magnetometers ferrofluid fluxon flux electric flux induction magnetoconductance ferromagnet fluxonium

Often followed by

magnetometer magnetometers gradiometer compass sensor sensors and gradiometers magnetic is

Word family

fluxgates