View example sentences and word forms for Fluxgate.

Fluxgate

Fluxgate meaning

Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.

Example sentences (3)

Fluxgate electronic compasses can be calibrated automatically, and can also be programmed with the correct local compass variation so as to indicate the true heading.

Increasingly, electronic fluxgate compasses are used on smaller vessels.

Two different magnetometers were mounted: a vector helium magnetometer and a fluxgate magnetometer.