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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Curved lines used to represent a magnetic field, drawn such that the number of lines relates to the magnetic field's strength at a given point and the tangent of any curve at a particular point is along the direction of magnetic force at that point.
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