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  1. In physics, law stating that the direction of
  2. an electromagnetically induced current
  3. (generated by moving a magnet near a wire or
  4. a wire in a magnetic field) will oppose the
  5. motion producing it. It is named after the
  6. German physicist Heinrich Friedrich Lenz
  7. (1804-65), who announced it in 1833.
  8.