moving-magnet
Electricity
adjective
Designating an electrical instrument or apparatus in which a permanent magnet is situated within a fixed coil, so that either the magnet moves when a current flows through the coil or else movement of the magnet generates a current.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
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