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Meaning of ZEEMAN EFFECT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Zee"man ef*fect"\ (Physics)
The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectral
lines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field,
first observed in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and
regarded as an important confirmation of the electromagnetic
theory of light.
 
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