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Definition of Flux unit
1. Noun. A measure of the strength of a magnetic field per unit area.
Generic synonyms: Magnetic Flux
Specialized synonyms: Maxwell, Mx, Wb, Weber
Definition of Flux unit
1. Noun. (astronomy) The (otherwise unnamed) unit of density of electromagnetic radiation from a radio star, equal to 10-26 watts per square meter per hertz ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flux Unit
Literary usage of Flux unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1896)
"A tube of flow is thus characterized throughout its length by a certain flux.
Unit tube. — A tube of flow is called a unit tube when the flux through it is ..."
2. Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1915)
"Art. 404) is the ratio of magnetomotive-force to magnetic flux. Unit reluctance
will be such that unit magnetomotive-force applied to it generates in it a ..."
3. Electric and Magnetic Measurements by Charles Marquis Smith (1917)
"There is no generally accepted name for this larger flux unit, although it is
sometimes called the practical line, in contradistinction to the COS line or ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"for which it proposed the name " Gauss,".it did not specify the kind of flux unit
for which it proposed the name •' Maxwell." It merely recommended that a ..."
5. Pyrometry: The Papers and Discussion of a Symposium on Pyrometry Held by the by National Research Council (U.S.) (1920)
"... is the ratio of the radiant flux unit of area from that substance to the
radiant flux per unit of area from a black body at the same temperature. ..."
6. Transactions by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"for which it proposed the name " Gauss," it did not specify the kind of flux unit
for which it proposed the name " Maxwell." It merely recommended that a ..."
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