pole piece

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noun Electricity.

a piece of magnetic material at a pole of a permanent magnet or of an electromagnet, shaped to control the magnetic flux distribution in the vicinity of the pole.

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Origin of pole piece

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby pole piece

polemist, polemize, polemology, polemoniaceous, polenta, pole piece, pole plate, pole position, poler, poles apart, polestar

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How to use pole piece in a sentence

The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
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My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
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The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
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Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
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I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
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There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
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She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
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Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.
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British Dictionary definitions for pole piece

pole piece

noun

electrical engineering a piece of ferromagnetic material forming an extension of the magnetic circuit in an electric motor, etc, used to concentrate the magnetic field where it will be most effective

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