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<physics> 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.
<physics> Astatic pair, a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.
Origin: Pref. A- not + static.
(01 Mar 1998)
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