Max·well  (m ăks w ĕl ′, -w əl), James Clerk 1831-1879.
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British physicist who made fundamental contributions to electromagnetic theory and the kinetic theory of gases. |
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max·well  (m ăks w ĕl ′, -w əl)
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n. Abbr. Mx The unit of magnetic flux in the centimeter-gram-second system, equal to the flux perpendicularly intersecting an area of one square centimeter in a region where the magnetic intensity is one gauss.
[After James Clerk Maxwell.] |
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