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maxwell   (TTS Sound)

The noun maxwell has 2 senses

• maxwell, Mx -- (a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss)


• Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell -- (Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879))