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Meiss′ner effect′
(mīs′nər),USA pronunciation [Physics.]
- Physicsthe loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.
- after German physicist Fritz Walther Meissner (1882–1974), who contributed to a description of the effect in 1933