MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetic field strength mean? 

• MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH (noun)
  The noun MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH has 1 sense:

1. the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow

  Familiarity information: MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

magnetic field strength; magnetic flux density; magnetic induction; magnetic intensity

Hypernyms ("magnetic field strength" is a kind of...):

field intensity; field strength (the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field)

 Context examples 

A SI derived unit used for linear electric current density, magnetic field strength, and magnetization.

(Ampere per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

At this point, with results from only one galactic halo, the researchers cannot say whether the low density and low magnetic field strength they measured are unusual or if previous studies of galactic halos have overestimated these properties.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

A CGS unit of magnetic field strength in a dielectric equal to Gauss multiplied by the number inverse to the magnetic permeability, or as the field strength in a vacuum at a distance one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.

(Oersted, NCI Thesaurus)