Etymograph

English

fluxgate

From flux + gate.

A compound of flux + gate

Latin fluō ‘flow’

Latin fluxus ‘flow’

Old French flux ‘diarrhea’

English flux

Proto-Germanic *gatą ‘hole, opening’

Proto-West Germanic *gat ‘opening, gate’

Old English ġeat ‘gate, door’

Middle English gate ‘gate’

English gate

Today it means

noun Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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