magnetometer
magnetometer
Definition
mag·ne·tom·eter (mag′nə täm′ət ər)
mag·ne·to·met·ric (mag nēt′ō met′rik, -net′-) adjective
mag′·ne·tom′·etry (-ə trē) noun
magnetometer
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: The feature's presence was detected by several instruments aboard the spacecraft, including the magnetometer.
- vibrate: The coercivity of relay steels and other magnetically soft materials can be measured using a vibrating coil magnetometer developed at NPL for this purpose.
Adjective modifier
- fluxgate: The search coil is boom mounted, using the same boom as the fluxgate magnetometer in the core payload.
- single: The Mag -01 and Mag -01H are single axis magnetometers comprising a probe and electronics module with a digital readout of the field value.
- ground-based: To some extent, the experimenter can check for potential errors by referring to the perturbation of the field seen by local ground-based magnetometers.
- low: British Antarctic Survey have developed a low power magnetometer for measuring the three components of the earth's magnetic field using a TDS2020 F.
- 3-axis: The navigation module contains both a 3-axis fluxgate magnetometer & a 3-axis accelerometer.
- differential: Photo Caption: The differential proton Magnetometer at Reculver.
Modifies a noun
- survey: Magnetometer survey over the site of the small topsoil magnetic susceptibility focus resulted in a plot showing the edge of a large salt pan.
- instrument: Professor Michele Dougherty from Imperial College is the lead scientist for the Magnetometer instrument.
- datum: The magnetometer data have been superimposed on a topographic plan of the site.
- network: The IMAGE magnetometer network runs from Svalbard down through Scandinavia.
- array: This model has been compared with a Pg observed by the SAMNET magnetometer array.
- system: The top picture on the right shows the magnetometer prototype system on the Antarctic plateau.
Noun used with modifier
- fluxgate: Imperial College would also be involved in the Kua Fu B fluxgate magnetometers.
- proton: BC: [ It's ] The beam of energy that I detected coming out of the ground, with a proton magnetometer.
- axis: The Mag -01 and Mag -01H are single axis magnetometers comprising a probe and electronics module with a digital readout of the field value.
- sample: A sample magnetometer survey of part of this area was carried out and is outlined below ( Bullas 1998 ).
- ship-board: The approach will be to apply 3-D numerical modeling methods to existing ship-board magnetometer survey data.
- cesium: In the image to the right we are using a cesium vapor magnetometer to locate buried drums and waste on an old landfill site.
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