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Definition of Galvanometer
1. Noun. Meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents.
Definition of Galvanometer
1. n. An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.
Definition of Galvanometer
1. Noun. (physics) A device used to indicate the presence and direction of a small electric current, especially used to detect a null or balanced condition in a bridge circuit. ¹
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Definition of Galvanometer
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Medical Definition of Galvanometer
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Galvanometer
Literary usage of Galvanometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In some examples of Helmholtz's galvanometer the conical surface, ... Reduction of
galvanometer Indication». — When the position of every layer of wire in ..."
2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"battery, and if X reversed, F and Z are in series with the galvanometer ...
For experiments of the kind we have been considering the galvanometer should be ..."
3. Electrical Measurements by Frank Arthur Laws (1917)
"When the D'Arsonval galvanometer is used as a potential galvanometer or a ...
To prevent loss of time when using any galvanometer, it is necessary that it ..."
4. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"Measurement of Magnetic Flux with a Ballistic galvanometer. — A ballistic
galvanometer is a measuring instrument whose deflections are proportional to very ..."
5. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1900)
"ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE galvanometer AS A TEST OF THE EVANESCENCE OF A ...
IN certain electrical measurements a galvanometer is used to indicate whether ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"These mercur}-- cups were connected with two others by means of short copper
wires, and into the second pair the ends of the galvanometer wires were plunged ..."
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