Crossword-Solution: ASTATIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Astatic | a. | Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ASTATIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| In neutral equilibrium. | 1 answer |
| Not stable or steady. | 1 answer |
| Tending not to stay in one place, in physics | 1 answer |
| Without polarity. | 1 answer |
| Not stable | 4 answers |
| Not steady. | 4 answers |
| unstable | 87 answers |
| Unsteady | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ASTATIC (5)
The decomposing wire and solution of iodide of potassium were then removed, and replaced by a very delicate galvanometer (205.); it was so nearly astatic, that it vibrated to and fro in about sixty-three beats of a watch giving one hundred and fifty beats in a minute.
There is much worry and misery in the world because so many are astatic, like a compass that has lost its loadstone.
Quartz fibres have two great advantages over other forms of suspension when employed for any kind of torsion balance, from an ordinary more or less "astatic" galvanometer to the Cavendish apparatus.
When it is so far sunk that its lower end rests upon the table, the upper end finds itself between the poles N´S´ of the astatic system.
The iron cylinder is thus converted into a strong magnet, attracting one of the poles, and repelling the other, and consequently deflecting the entire astatic system.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1944–1979).