单词 | zero magnet |
释义 | > as lemmaszero magnet zero magnet n. now rare a magnet used to reset the zero of an instrument or device; cf. sense A. 4a. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. at Magnet Deflecting-magnet,..also called zero magnet, directing-magnet, and deflector. 1894 Philos. Trans. 1893 (Royal Soc.) A. 184 596 I use a small weak ‘zero magnet’, with its magnetic axis perpendicular to the plane of the mirror, for the purpose of bringing the zero of the scale to the cross wire of the telescope. 1969 W. W. Bischoff in J. G. Giles Vehicle Equipm. v. 222 In a variation of the instrument an additional zero magnet causes the pointer to return to the low end of the scale. < as lemmas |
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