moving-coil galvanometer

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   a galvanometer that is operated by the force exerted by an electric current flowing in a movable coil suspended in a magnetic field

   Broadergalvanometer

   Narrowerballistic galvanometer

Questions about moving-coil galvanometer

What does moving-coil galvanometer mean?

moving-coil galvanometer means "a galvanometer that is operated by the force exerted by an electric current flowing in a movable coil suspended in a magnetic field".

Is moving-coil galvanometer a common word?

moving-coil galvanometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.