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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any unit of measurement of the magnetic moment of a molecular, atomic, or subatomic particle, especially the Bohr magneton or nuclear magneton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A unit of magnetic moment for a subatomic particle, atom, or molecule.

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  • noun physics any of several units of magnetic moment of an atom, molecule or subatomic particle

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  • noun a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle

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Examples

  • The magneton is feathered to give the ice more time to thermalize its vibrational energy.

    Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

  • Storing patterns in a transport buffer is extremely risky; a loss of power, physical damage to the transporter system, or such phenomena as ion storms or magneton pulses can all compromise the integrity of a quantum-level signal.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Storing patterns in a transport buffer is extremely risky; a loss of power, physical damage to the transporter system, or such phenomena as ion storms or magneton pulses can all compromise the integrity of a quantum-level signal.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Storing patterns in a transport buffer is extremely risky; a loss of power, physical damage to the transporter system, or such phenomena as ion storms or magneton pulses can all compromise the integrity of a quantum-level signal.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Storing patterns in a transport buffer is extremely risky; a loss of power, physical damage to the transporter system, or such phenomena as ion storms or magneton pulses can all compromise the integrity of a quantum-level signal.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Starting from this idea Kusch made a series of very careful investigations and found in 1947 that the magnetic moment of the electron is larger than the Bohr magneton by about one part in a thousand.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • Moreover, the experiment rendered it possible to estimate the magnetic factors of the electron, which proved to be in close accord with the universal magnetic unit, the so-called "Bohr's magneton".

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 and 1944 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • Moreover, the experiment rendered it possible to estimate the magnetic factors of the electron, which proved to be in close accord with the universal magnetic unit, the so-called "Bohr's magneton".

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 and 1944 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • But ideas give birth to new ideas, and it was, as I understand, in this way that you hit upon the excellent notion of eliminating the difficult absolute determination of the magnetic field by a direct measurement of the neutron moment in units of the proton cycle (the nuclear magneton).

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • It was suggested by the American physicist Breit that the reason for this could be that the magnetic moment of the electron is somewhat different from the value assumed until then which is called a Bohr magneton.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 - Presentation Speech 1964

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