FIELD STRENGTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field strength mean? 

• FIELD STRENGTH (noun)
  The noun FIELD STRENGTH has 1 sense:

1. the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field

  Familiarity information: FIELD STRENGTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD STRENGTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

field intensity; field strength

Hypernyms ("field strength" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensity level; strength (the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field strength"):

magnetic field strength; magnetic flux density; magnetic induction; magnetic intensity (the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow)

 Context examples 

A SI derived unit used for linear electric current density, magnetic field strength, and magnetization.

(Ampere per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

At this point, with results from only one galactic halo, the researchers cannot say whether the low density and low magnetic field strength they measured are unusual or if previous studies of galactic halos have overestimated these properties.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

A CGS unit of magnetic field strength in a dielectric equal to Gauss multiplied by the number inverse to the magnetic permeability, or as the field strength in a vacuum at a distance one centimeter from a unit magnetic pole.

(Oersted, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the magnetic auxiliary field strength created tangentially at a distance of one meter from a straight conductor of infinite length and with negligible cross section by a circulating current of one ampere, or linear electric current density when one ampere electric current is conducted in one meter wide conducting sheet.

(Ampere per Meter, NCI Thesaurus)