bar magnet
- noun
- /bɑr ˈmæɡnɪt/
- Specialized
:
imán de barra
- Flux lines come out this way from the bar magnet and this way.
In fact, Ampere and Faraday both looked at the iron filings around a small coil and a bar magnet and found they looked identical.
- In fact, Ampere and Faraday both looked at the iron filings around a small coil and a bar magnet and found they looked identical.
Examples
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In fact, Ampere and Faraday both looked at the iron filings around a small coil and a bar magnet and found they looked identical.
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Thus, a bar magnet may be suspended with the use of a tied string dangling in the air.
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Here the pupils may use bar magnets to establish ideas pertaining to the north and south poles of a magnet.
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A second bar magnet may be used to notice which side attracts and which repels when the opposite sides are near the dangling bar magnet.
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Students can experiment with a bar magnet to discover which end attracts paper clips.
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In physics class, we learned how a bar magnet has distinct north and south poles.
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A bar magnet can be used to demonstrate magnetic fields with the help of iron filings.
Synonyms
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A piece of metal that attracts iron or steel
An object with two opposite poles, like a bar magnet, that makes a force around it
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'magnet' that has the shape of a 'bar' (a long, rigid piece), so the compound denotes a magnet in the form of a bar. This is a simple noun-noun descriptive pattern that is cross-linguistically common and should be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Bar magnet comes from its shape: a straight piece of metal that is a bar and is also a magnet. Because the metal has a strong 'north' end and a strong 'south' end, the name helps explain why it pulls iron and moves compass needles.