Usage: usually capitalized L
: the precession of a particle having magnetic moment (as an atom when spinning in a magnetic field)
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/lahr"mawr/, Physics.
the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4 pi times the mass.
[1925-30; named after Sir Joseph Larmor (1857-1942), English mathematician]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.