magnetic field
noun
: the portion of space near a magnetic body or a current-carrying body in which the magnetic forces due to the body or current can be detected
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Stronger solar winds can interfere with Earth's magnetic field.
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The equipment includes a device that’s testing out how GPS services might be used in orbit and on the lunar surface, a vacuum that will aim to suck up soil, and a telescope that will observe how Earth’s protective magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, responds to space weather.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Compared to far more common radial flux motors, axial flux motors essentially flip the magnetic field on its side, operating via magnetic flux that runs in parallel to the motor axis.
—New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
The team studied information about the moon’s magnetic fields from all eight of Galileo’s flybys, incorporating new statistical techniques to determine if its ionosophere–the electrically conductive part of its atmosphere–was enough to explain it.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
The equipment includes a device that’s testing out how GPS services might be used in orbit and on the lunar surface, a vacuum that will aim to suck up soil, and a telescope that will observe how Earth’s protective magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, responds to space weather.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Compared to far more common radial flux motors, axial flux motors essentially flip the magnetic field on its side, operating via magnetic flux that runs in parallel to the motor axis.
—New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2025
The team studied information about the moon’s magnetic fields from all eight of Galileo’s flybys, incorporating new statistical techniques to determine if its ionosophere–the electrically conductive part of its atmosphere–was enough to explain it.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Magnetic field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20field. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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