Meissner effect

noun

The total expulsion of magnetic flux from the interior of a superconducting metal when it is cooled in a magnetic field below a critical temperature, near absolute zero, at which the transition to superconductivity takes place.

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Meanings

nounMeissner effect (plural Meissner effects)

plural Meissner effects

  1. natural sciencesThe total expulsion of magnetic flux from the interior of a superconducting metal when it is cooled in a magnetic field below a critical temperature, near absolute zero, at which the transition to superconductivity takes place.

Origin

For Walther Meißner, German physicist.

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