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Definition of "magnetometer" [mag•net•om•e•ter]

  • An instrument for measuring the magnitude and direction of a magnetic field. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "magnetometer" in a sentence
  • "Security Staff at Reagan Airport forced a seputgenerian Congressman to strip to his underwear, refusing to believe that the thing that was ringing the magnetometer was his artificial hip."
  • "CAMPOS: Well, the information I've gotten is that we're closing terminals 4 through 8 because a-- one of the machines that they use to detect metal, it's called the magnetometer, hasn't been working since about, as near as they can find, about 5: 00 AM."
  • "Once he isolated the ideal crystals, Tarduno used a device called a superconducting quantum interface device, or SQUID magnetometer, which is normally used to troubleshoot computer chips because it's extremely sensitive to the smallest magnetic fields."