Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting liquids or gases, such as molten metal or plasma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The study of the interaction of magnetic fields with electrically conductive fluids, such as a plasma or a molten metal.
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- noun physics the study of the
interaction ofelectrically conducting fluids withmagnetic fields ; as in the Earth's core - noun nautical, engineering the study of the interaction of
water with magnetic fields and its application
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal)
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Examples
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Such gas acts as a conductor of electricity and when employed as a "magnetohydrodynamics" generator it can be used for a variety of purposes.
The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics.
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Then I read a few chapters from a graduate student's thesis-in-progress; nothing like a little magnetohydrodynamics to get the blood flowing.
Reading Dr. Lisa 2007
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They claim that magnetohydrodynamics is needed to treat atmospheric flows.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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I like Hannes Alfren's experiments with liquid mercury to help explain the concept of magnetohydrodynamics.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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It involves the magnetohydrodynamics of the interstellar medium and the region of the heliopause, which is much smaller.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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Then I read a few chapters from a graduate student's thesis-in-progress; nothing like a little magnetohydrodynamics to get the blood flowing.
Archive 2007-05-01 Dr. Lisa 2007
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They claim that magnetohydrodynamics is needed to treat atmospheric flows.
Archive 2009-04-01 EliRabett 2009
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What we are proposing is that the dark matter is really a plasma, and to understand how structure forms, one needs to consider dark magnetohydrodynamics.
Dark Photons Sean 2008
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Obviously the solution of these problems can be attained only by combined efforts of specialists, working in dendroclimatology, paleoastrophysics, mathematical statistics, geophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, solar physics and cosmic plasma physics.
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Here we have over 50 years of both theory and physical observation in the areas of high energy plasma ,and the difficulties of magnetohydrodynamics physics which is nearly as hard to spell as explain.
alexz commented on the word magnetohydrodynamics
According to XKCD 1851 , just replace this word with magic
June 18, 2017