How to Use magnetometer in a Sentence

magnetometer

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• 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
• Another first is the inclusion of a magnetometer on the survey that will detect all metals in the wreck and any buried under the bottom silt.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 July 2024
• 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
• The magnetometer will trigger the mine when a large metal object is close, so the mine will go off when tank tracks go either side of it without making contact.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• That person was later identified as Crooks, who had been seen pacing and acting oddly near magnetometers at the event.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 16 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024