LORENTZ FORCE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field

Example:

the Lorentz force can be used to suspend a current-carrying object between two magnets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("Lorentz force" is a kind of...):

force ((physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity)

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