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Electromagnet   /ɪlˌɛktroʊmˈægnət/   Listen
Electromagnet

noun
1.
A temporary magnet made by coiling wire around an iron core; when current flows in the coil the iron becomes a magnet.





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"Electromagnet" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship's generators you're looking at," I said. "Ninety-eight per cent of their output is now feeding into coils that make an electromagnet of this ship's hull. You will find it very hard to separate us. And I would advise you not ...
— The Misplaced Battleship • Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
... the first to detect the influence of magnetism on light. Between the poles of a large electromagnet, powerful for those days (1845), he placed a block of very dense glass. The plane of polarization of a beam of light, which passed unaffected through the glass before the switch was closed, was seen to rotate when the magnetic field ...
— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale


Words linked to "Electromagnet" :   relay, electric bell, magnet, electrical relay, armature, magnetic head


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