SOLENOID

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Electro-Dynamics,aname given by Ampere to a system of small electrical currents, equal and equidistant, and returning into themselves, the planes of which are normals to any given line, whether a straight line or curve, upon which their centres are situated, and which forms the axis of the solenoid. (Despretz, Traite de Physique, 183G.) [s. 1152]