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Lenz's law
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English
Etymology
From Heinrich Lenz, German physicist.
Proper noun
en physics a law of electromagnetic induction which states that an electromotive force, induced in a conductor, is always in such a direction that the current it would produce would oppose the change which caused it; it is a form of the law of conservation of energy
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