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Webster 1913 Edition


Magnetometer

Magˊnet-om′e-ter

,
Noun.
[
Magneto-
+
-meter
: cf. F.
magnétomètre
.]
(Physics)
An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.