MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetic flux density mean? 

• MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY (noun)
  The noun MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY (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 flux density" 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 CGS unit of magnetic flux density.

(Gauss, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 10(E-9) tesla (one nanotesla) or 10(E-5) oersted, traditionally used in geophysics for measurement of changes in the Earth's magnetic field.

(Gamma, NCI Thesaurus)