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Lenz's law
  قانون ِ لنتز   
qânun-e Lenz (#)

Fr.: loi de Lenz   

The direction of an induced current is such as to oppose the cause producing it. The cause of the current may be the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field, or it may be the change of flux through a stationary circuit.

Named after Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (1804-1865), German physicist, who published the law in 1834; → law.