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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The force perpendicular to the forward motion on a spinning object moving through a fluid or gas, as that responsible for the curve on a curve ball.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Heinrich Gustav Magnus, (1802–1870), German chemist and physicist.]
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