Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physics of electricity and magnetism.
- noun An interaction between electricity and magnetism, as when an electric current or a changing electric field generates a magnetic field, or when a changing magnetic field generates an electric field.
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- noun A unified
fundamental force that combines the aspects ofelectricity andmagnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified withweak nuclear to formelectroweak ) Its gaugeboson is thephoton . - noun
Electricity andmagnetism , collectively, as afield ofstudy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The majority also relies on O'Reilly v. Morse, citing the Court's rejection of Morse's Claim 8 for "the use of the motive power of the electro or galvanic current, which I call electromagnetism, however developed, for making or printing intelligible characters, signs or letters at any distances ...."
Groklaw 2008
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The physics of electromagnetism is the result of rigorous experimentation.
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A natural idea now was to search for a mechanism like the one in electromagnetism to mediate the strong force.
Forces 2001
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Since there were only two basic forces known in the beginning of the 20th century, gravitation and electromagnetism, and it was seen that electromagnetism is responsible for the forces in the atom, it was natural to believe that it was also responsible for the forces keeping the nucleus together.
Forces 2001
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We normally say that electromagnetism is an abelian gauge theory, after the
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Partly through the work of Davey, Faraday, Orsted, Volta and Ampere in electromagnetism, and the scientific and industrial revolutions which surrounded it, the world has restructured itself from a mainly agrarian society as late as 1800, through an industrial society during the century and a half that followed, to a knowledge-based society today.
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You honestly do believe that astronomers and physicists hate the idea of electromagnetism in space, don't you?
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One could deduce from this that optics would become a branch of the science called electromagnetism and thus lose its status as an autonomous science.
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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Oops someone used the dirty word again: "electromagnetism "
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Initially, the responses were hostile to any mention of "electromagnetism" in space, even near-space here in the solar system.
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