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string galvanometer

noun

Medical Definition of STRING GALVANOMETER

:  a galvanometer for measuring oscillating currents by the lateral motions of a silver-plated quartz fiber traversed by the current and stretched under adjustable tension perpendicular to the field of an electromagnet

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