magnetic mirror

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a region in a magnetic bottle where the magnetic field increases abruptly, causing charged particles that enter it to be reflected.

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magnetic mirror British  

noun

1. physics a configuration of magnetic fields used to confine charged particles, as in a magnetic bottle

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Etymology

Origin of magnetic mirror

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

They report their discovery in the article "Modulated Kondo screening along magnetic mirror twin boundaries in monolayer MoS2" in Nature Physics.

From Science Daily

I imagine the disks hitting your pink Red Sox sweatshirt, falling past the decorations that hang on the inside of your locker door—the cutout magazine images of cats, the polka-dot magnetic mirror, the photos of your new friends, the ones that one day replaced the picture of the two of us standing together at Six Flags.

From Literature

Magnetic mirror holds promise for fusion.

From Scientific American

The design uses “magnetic mirror confinement” to control the reaction.

From Time

McGuire says they get around this problem by encapsulating the cusp device inside a magnetic mirror device, a different sort of confinement technique.

From Science Magazine