MOVING-COIL GALVANOMETER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A galvanometer that is operated by the force exerted by an electric current flowing in a movable coil suspended in a magnetic field

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("moving-coil galvanometer" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moving-coil galvanometer"):

ballistic galvanometer (a moving-coil galvanometer that measures electric charge)

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