[
UK
/ɡˌælvɐnˈɒmɪtɐ/
]
NOUN
- meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents
How To Use galvanometer In A Sentence
- Crossed-flexure pivot galvanometers are generally used in fixed-frequency application.
- Flexure galvanometers and low-noise servo drives offer improved performance in applications requiring smooth scanning with low jitter.
- It will be seen that, upon combining all the elements of the apparatus, we can obtain very different combinations; and, according to the inventor, his rheometer is a substitute for a dozen galvanometers of various degrees of sensitiveness, and permits of measuring currents of from 20 amperes down to 1/50000000 an ampere. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
- Quartz fibres have two great advantages over other forms of suspension when employed for any kind of torsion balance, from an ordinary more or less "astatic" galvanometer to the Cavendish apparatus. On Laboratory Arts
- Lens 6.3 – 63 mm (38 – 380 mm on a 35 mm camera), 10x optical zoom lens, Open f/1.8 (W) – 2.5 (T), galvanometer method structure, AF: 8 groups, 11 lenses (3 aspherical elements, 5 aspherical surfaces), built-in ND filter Sanyo launches world’s smallest ‘Full HD’ camcorder | Sync Blog
- In 1902, a Dutch physiologist published the first ECG recorded with his 270-kg machine, the string galvanometer, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize.
- A reflecting galvanometer covered in Bakelite that's as heavy as a lead brick. Boing Boing: June 23, 2002 - June 29, 2002 Archives
- By using over five kilometers of copper wire coiled nearly 24,000 times around a magnet, he constructed a galvanometer capable of measuring electrical potential differences on a scale of millivolts.
- By dividing the range of the galvanometer thus obtained into 100 equal parts, the requisite actinometric scale will be established. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
- This in turn gives the galvanometer a greater readability, and by keeping the mass and inertia of the actual moving element low, a greater sensitivity.