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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Generation of an electric potential perpendicular to both an electric current flowing along a conducting material and an external magnetic field applied at right angles to the current upon application of the magnetic field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
effect .
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- noun physics the effect in which a
conductor that carries anelectric current perpendicular to anapplied magnetic field develops avoltage gradient transverse to both current and field
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edwin Herbert Hall, (1855–1938), American physicist.]
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From Edwin Herbert Hall, American physicist.
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