Meanings
nounBarkhausen effect (plural Barkhausen effects)
plural Barkhausen effects
- natural sciencesThe phenomenon where noise is generated in the magnetic output of a ferromagnet after the magnetizing force applied to it is changed.
Origin
Discovered by German physicist Heinrich Barkhausen in 1919.
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