fluxgate
noun
fluxgate is a noun meaning “Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-X-G-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluxgate is fluxgates.
What does fluxgate mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fluxgate
- fluxgates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluxgate?
Fluxgate appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fluxgate come from?
From flux + gate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).