SQUID

Jan 20, 2025

Noun: an elongated, fast-swimming cephalopod mollusc with eight arms and two long tentacles, typically able to change colour

Verb: fish using squid as bait

Noun: a device used in particular in sensitive magnetometers, which consists of a superconducting ring containing one or more Josephson junctions. A change by one flux quantum in the ring's magnetic flux linkage produces a sharp change in its impedance