Astatic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASTATIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• having no tendency to stand in a fixed position
• (of a system or instrument) consisting of or employing a combination of magnets suspended in a uniform magnetic field on a single wire or thread in such a way that no torque is present.
• not static
• Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
• not static or stable
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• unstable

Words related to ASTATIC

astatically16 astaticism14

Words that contain ASTATIC

anastatic11 diastatic12 astaticism14 metastatic14 astatically16 astaticisms15 metastatically21 antimetastatic18

How to use ASTATIC in a sentence

• This magnet is capable of rendering the needle less sensitive or of making it astatic.
• This is a degree of sensitiveness that cannot be obtained with any of the astatic instruments known up to the present.
• But in astatic instruments it is better to place the magnets in such a way that the two branches shall be in the same vertical plane.
• Were the line that joins the two poles vertical, the system would be perfectly astatic in a uniform field, since each magnet in particular would then be perfectly astatic.

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