ASTATIC GALVANOMETER

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Meaning:

Has a moving magnet and astatic coils arranged to cancel the effect of the Earth's magnetic field

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

galvanometer (meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents)

Meronyms (parts of "astatic galvanometer"):

astatic coils (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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