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A bundle of field lines treated as bounded by a tube-shaped surface, especially in magnetic-field models.
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- magnetic flux tube
- a thin flux tube
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The simulation followed a flux tube through the plasma.
The diagram’s flux tube represented a field structure rather than a metal conduit.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular flux tube; plural flux tubes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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