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Noun: moving-coil galvanometer
  1. A galvanometer that is operated by the force exerted by an electric current flowing in a movable coil suspended in a magnetic field
    "The physics student used a moving-coil galvanometer to measure small electric currents"

Derived forms: moving-coil galvanometers

Type of: galvanometer