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magnetic moment

  1. a measure of the strength of a localized source of magnetic field
  2. a moment of electrons and nuclear particles caused by the intrinsic spin of a particle and the orbital motion of a particle, as around a nucleus

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noun
The product of the pole strength of a magnet and the distance between the poles.

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