Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun astatic_coils

1 sense of astatic coils

Sense 1
astatic coils -- (an arrangement of coils used in sensitive electrical instruments; the coils are arranged to give zero resultant external magnetic field when a current passes through them and to have zero electromotive force induced in them by an external magnetic field)
       => coil -- (reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit)