MEANING
Changing dimensions in response to a change in magnetization.
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- magnetostrictive actuator
- magnetostrictive material
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A magnetostrictive actuator moved the valve.
The material’s magnetostrictive response produced vibration.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a technical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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