magnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈnɛtɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmæɡnəʈɪk/
Forms: form: more magnetic
form: most magnetic
form: magnetical
form: magnetick
Etymology: From magnet + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a magnetic recorder
text: [M]agnetic action […] is the subsequence of the motion of iron to the approach of a loadstone.
ref: 1818, Thomas Brown, Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect, third edition, page 83:
text: Retrieving that fingerprint involves a series of magnetic experiments that repeatedly heat and cool the object, exposing it to magnetic fields and then removing them.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, relating to, operating by, or caused by magnetism.
glosses: Having the properties of a magnet, especially the ability to draw or pull.
examples: text: magnetic north
text: the magnetic meridian
glosses: Determined by earth's magnetic fields.
examples: text: He has a magnetic personality.
text: she that had all magnetic force alone
ref: 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World—The First Anniversery:
glosses: Having an extraordinary ability to attract: attractive, alluring, persuasive
examples: text: a magnetic sleep
glosses: Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism.
Synonyms: sense: of, relating to, caused by, or operating by magnetism
word: magnetised
sense: of, relating to, caused by, or operating by magnetism
word: magnetized
sense: having the properties a magnet
word: attractive
sense: having the properties a magnet
word: repulsive
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: alluring
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: appealing
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: attractive
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: captivating
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: charismatic
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: enchanting
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: enthralling
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: fascinating
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: inviting
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: seductive
sense: having an extraordinary ability to attract
word: charming
Derived terms: acoustomagnetic
aeromagnetic
amagnetic
antiferromagnetic
antimagnetic
archeomagnetic
biomagnetic
chromomagnetic
cryomagnetic
diamagnetic
electromagnetic
ferrimagnetic
ferromagnetic
flexomagnetic
functional magnetic resonance imaging
galvanomagnetic
geomagnetic
gravimagnetic
gravitomagnetic
gyromagnetic
heliomagnetic
hydromagnetic
hypermagnetic
hypomagnetic
immunomagnetic
isomagnetic
magnetical
magnetically
magneticalness
magnetic anisotropy
magnetic battery
magnetic bearing
magnetic bottle
magnetic card
magnetic circuit
magnetic compass
magnetic core memory
magnetic crochet
magnetic declination
magnetic deviation
magnetic dip
magnetic drawing board
magnetic energy
magnetic equator
magnetic field
magnetic flux
magnetic flux density
magnetic helicity
Magnetic Island
magneticism
magneticity
magnetic lens
magnetic levitation
magnetic levitation train
magnetic local time
magnetic mine
magnetic mirror
magnetic moment
magnetic monopole
magneticness
magnetic north
magnetic North Pole
magnetic permeability
magnetic poetry
magnetic polarity
magnetic pole
magnetic quantum number
magnetic recording
magnetic resonance angiography
magnetic resonance imaging
magnetic resonance tomography
magnetic reversal
magnetic skyrmion
magnetic stirrer
magnetic storm
magnetic strip
magnetic stripe
magnetic susceptibility
magnetic tape
magnetic termite
magnetic thermometer
magnetic trap
magnetic variation
metamagnetic
micromagnetic
nanomagnetic
neuromagnetic
nonmagnetic
non-magnetic
north magnetic pole
nuclear magnetic pulse
nuclear magnetic resonance
optomagnetic
palaeomagnetic
paleomagnetic
paramagnetic
photomagnetic
phrenomagnetic
piezomagnetic
pseudomagnetic
pyromagnetic
rotating magnetic field
semimagnetic
spin magnetic moment
supermagnetic
thermomagnetic
ultramagnetic
unmagnetic
zoomagnetic
Related terms: magnet