magnetic moment

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noun Electricity.

a vector quantity associated with a given electric current, magnet, or the like, having the property that its vector product with the magnetic induction equals the torque acting on the given object.

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Also called dipole moment.

Origin of magnetic moment

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby magnetic moment

magnetic levitation, magnetic memory storage, magnetic meridian, magnetic mine, magnetic mirror, magnetic moment, magnetic monopole, magnetic needle, magnetic north, magnetic particle inspection, magnetic permeability

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021

How to use magnetic moment in a sentence

Muons also have an intrinsic property called “spin,” and the relation between the spin and the magnetic moment of the muon is known as the g-factor.
Scientists Found Hints of New Particles or Forces of Nature, and It Could Change Physics|Themis Bowcock|April 9, 2021|Singularity Hub
These exist fleetingly, but for long enough to affect how the muon interacts with the magnetic field and change the measured magnetic moment, albeit by a tiny amount.
Scientists Found Hints of New Particles or Forces of Nature, and It Could Change Physics|Themis Bowcock|April 9, 2021|Singularity Hub
In the paper, a team of theorists known as BMW present a state-of-the-art supercomputer calculation of the most uncertain term that goes into the Standard Model prediction of the muon’s magnetic moment.
‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles|Natalie Wolchover|April 7, 2021|Quanta Magazine
Both measurements of the muon’s wobbliness, or magnetic moment, significantly overshoot the theoretical prediction, as calculated last year by an international consortium of 132 theoretical physicists.
‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles|Natalie Wolchover|April 7, 2021|Quanta Magazine

BMW’s larger term leads to a larger overall predicted value of the muon’s magnetic moment, bringing the prediction in line with the measurements.
‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles|Natalie Wolchover|April 7, 2021|Quanta Magazine
In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
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But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.
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The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.
Why We Stand With Charlie Hebdo—And You Should Too|John Avlon|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
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The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl

British Dictionary definitions for magnetic moment

magnetic moment

noun

short for magnetic dipole moment, electromagnetic moment

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for magnetic moment

magnetic moment

See magnetic dipole moment.