noun
- plural of maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux in the electromagnetic system
Usage: physics; technical
Examples
- The magnetic flux was measured in maxwells.
- Scientists recorded several thousand maxwells in their experiment.
- The old textbook still used maxwells instead of webers.
- Converting maxwells to the SI unit requires multiplication by 10^-8.
- The instrument detected fluctuations of a few maxwells.