# Meissner effect

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The total expulsion of magnetic flux from the interior of a superconducting metal when it is cooled in a magnetic field below a critical temperature, near absolute zero, at which the transition to superconductivity takes place.

## Etymology
For Walther Meißner, German physicist.

## Source
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