Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation electromagnetic field
- abbreviation electromotive force
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Physics) An abbreviation for
electro-motive force .
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- initialism physics
electromotive force - initialism software Initialism of Eclipse Modeling Framework.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts
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Examples
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Emf of a battery is due to electrochemical redox reactions occuring between dissimilar metal electrodes, one of which becomes positively charged, the other of which becomes negatively charged. you can have an EMF building up a charge, and discharging the stored electrons, but you have no field of you are not doing any moving of the electrons
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4 The term EMF has absolutely nothing at all to do with any of this.
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Have we already found it and it is called an EMF Reader?
Alexandra Holzer: It's Thanksgiving! Let's Toast to the "Ghost Roast" Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Have we already found it and it is called an EMF Reader?
Alexandra Holzer: It's Thanksgiving! Let's Toast to the "Ghost Roast" Alexandra Holzer 2011
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Try to stay out of the way of the people in EMF, etc., who still believe enough to do good work there in spite of you.
Dear George: A Reply 2007
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Some concern has been raised about the possible health effects of electromagnetic field radiation, known as EMF, for people who drive in hybrid cars.
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Some concern has been raised about the possible health effects of electromagnetic field radiation, known as EMF, for people who drive in hybrid cars.
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I also like to use what's called EMF detectors to register any type of electromagnetic disturbances that may be around me at the time when I am feeling the presence of a ghost.
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I also like to use what's called EMF detectors to register any type of electromagnetic disturbances that may be around me at the time when I am feeling the presence of a ghost.
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With similar reproach ECB member Axel Weber said that the EMF was a distraction.
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