magnetic units
81printing — /prin ting/, n. 1. the art, process, or business of producing books, newspapers, etc., by impression from movable types, plates, etc. 2. the act of a person or thing that prints. 3. words, symbols, etc., in printed form. 4. printed material. 5.… …
82rock — rock1 rockless, adj. rocklike, adj. /rok/, n. 1. a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like. 2. Geol. a. mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses or considerable… …
83Rock — /rok/, n. a male given name. * * * I In geology, a naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of minerals. The three major classes of rock igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic are based on the processes that formed them. These three classes are… …
84Electromagnetism — Electricity · …
85Gauss (unit) — The gauss, abbreviated as G, is the cgs unit of measurement of a magnetic field B (which is also known as the magnetic flux density , or the magnetic induction ), named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. One gauss… …
86Timeline of binary prefixes — This article presents a terminology timeline of binary prefixes.1940s; 1943 1944:*J.W. Tukey coins the word bit as an abbreviation of binary digit . [http://catb.org/ esr/jargon/html/B/bit.html The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)] ] ; 1948:*… …
87Spin (physics) — This article is about spin in quantum mechanics. For rotation in classical mechanics, see angular momentum. In quantum mechanics and particle physics, spin is a fundamental characteristic property of elementary particles, composite particles… …
88radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
89Vacuum permeability — This article is about the magnetic constant. For the analogous electric constant, see vacuum permittivity. Vacuum permeability, permeability of free space, or magnetic constant is an ideal, (baseline) physical constant, which is the value of… …
90magnetism — /mag ni tiz euhm/, n. 1. the properties of attraction possessed by magnets; the molecular properties common to magnets. 2. the agency producing magnetic phenomena. 3. the science dealing with magnetic phenomena. 4. strong attractive power or… …
