maxwell
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maxwell /ˈmakswɛl/ (abbrev.: Mx)
▶noun Physics a unit of magnetic flux in the c.g.s. system, equal to that induced through one square centimetre by a perpendicular magnetic field of one gauss.
– origin early 20th cent.: named after the Scottish physicist J. C. Maxwell (1831–79).
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