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Magnus effect
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English
Etymology
en Heinrich Gustav Magnus = 1802 1870 physicist German.
Noun
The phenomenon whereby the path of a spinning object moving through a fluid is deflected in a manner that is not observed when the object is not spinning, explained by the difference in pressure of the fluid on opposite sides of the object.