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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principle stating that an electric current induced by a source such as a changing magnetic field always creates a counterforce opposing the force inducing it. The law accounts for such phenomena as diamagnetism and the electrical properties of inductors.
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- noun physics a
law ofelectromagnetic induction which states that anelectromotive force ,induced in aconductor , is always in such adirection that thecurrent it would produce wouldoppose the change which caused it; it is a form of the law of conservation of energy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz , (1804–1865), German physicist born in Livonia who formulated the principle.]
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From Heinrich Lenz German physicist
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