How to Use magnetometer in a Sentence

magnetometer

noun
  • The magnetometer and gravimeter go where radar and laser can’t penetrate, beneath the ocean and down to the bedrock.
    TIME.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Zhurong also has a magnetometer, the first ever sent to Mars on a rover.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 May 2021
  • Guests will be cleared via a walk-through magnetometer.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Tests in deserts on Earth have shown how magnetometers are able to tell you whether there is water at depth, Brain explains.
    Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There will be 17 magnetometers to speed up security for those wishing to be on the Capitol grounds, which puts you near the stage.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 16 Jan. 2020
  • As part of the screening process, Hall was told to take all metal items out of his pockets before passing through the magnetometer.
    Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
  • The stadium employs the use of walk-through magnetometers to complete the screening process.
    Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 31 Oct. 2019
  • From this, the Cassini magnetometer team inferred that Enceladus must be a source of ionized gas.
    Dan Reisenfeld, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The apps use a magnetometer to measure the magnetic field when your phone is placed near metal objects.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Manson searched with divers and hired a vessel with an on-board magnetometer to locate the missing piece, but days later it hadn’t been found.
    Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • And these were just the people who submitted to going through a magnetometer.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • All three teams will launch their devices, known as magnetometers, in CubeSats.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The two started with an off-the-shelf magnetometer, the kind that’s used in cell phones to help orientation in navigation apps.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The magnetometer embedded in Apple's cases for the iPhone 12 solves this problem by sensing and aligning the phone to the charging coil.
    Dan Patterson, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • There's a camera, a magnetometer, and a gyroscope on-board.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Beresheet itself carries a magnetometer to study the moon's magnetism.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Side scan is often paired with a magnetometer, which responds to the presence of iron and measures magnetic forces.
    Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2022
  • These sections can be read by any standard magnetometer, even the one built into most smartphones.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2017
  • There is also a magnetometer that will measure and map any remnants of a magnetic field.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022
  • At least one instrument, the magnetometer, is working well enough to do science.
    Elizabeth Howell, Scientific American, 6 July 2014
  • Meanwhile, the magnetometer will help determine the size of the core and the ocean by measuring their separate contributions to the moon’s field.
    Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The results detected by the MI sensors were compared with those of a fluxgate magnetometer in the same location.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2023
  • These variances, recorded by a magnetometer, can be correlated to a map of the planet.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Employing a salvage company, side scan sonar, magnetometers, and divers, the team searched the length of Bayou Canot and came up empty.
    Ben Raines, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • An alarm, perhaps from a nearby magnetometer, blares as men from the crowd appear to keep entering the door without police checking for weapons.
    Author: Aaron C. Davis, Rebecca Tan, Beth Reinhard, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2021
  • All visitors are screened by a magnetometer and their belongings screened by an x-ray machine.
    CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • When the rover is launched in 2009, its video camera, subsurface radar, and magnetometer – attached to the inside of the ball by tension cords – will search for signs of life, water, and tectonic plate movement.
    Robin Clewley, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2001
  • The lobby, though guarded with dogs, a magnetometer and heavily armed police officers, is still open to the public.
    Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
  • The first step uses Hubble’s magnetometers and sun sensors together with one gyro to determine the spacecraft’s orientation with respect to Earth and the sun.
    Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 June 2024
  • The attack is believed to be linked to a domestic dispute, and everyone who attended the ceremony had passed through magnetometers, according to the statement for the schools.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 20 June 2024

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