ASTATIC COILS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astatic coils mean? 

• ASTATIC COILS (noun)
  The noun ASTATIC COILS has 1 sense:

1. an arrangement of coils used in sensitive electrical instruments; the coils are arranged to give zero resultant external magnetic field when a current passes through them and to have zero electromotive force induced in them by an external magnetic field

  Familiarity information: ASTATIC COILS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTATIC COILS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of coils used in sensitive electrical instruments; the coils are arranged to give zero resultant external magnetic field when a current passes through them and to have zero electromotive force induced in them by an external magnetic field

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("astatic coils" is a kind of...):

coil (reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit)

Holonyms ("astatic coils" is a part of...):

astatic galvanometer (has a moving magnet and astatic coils arranged to cancel the effect of the Earth's magnetic field)