magnetism
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- noun
- /ˈmæɡnɪˌtɪzəm/
- Specialized
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magnetismo
- Magnetism allows a compass to point towards the North Pole, helping navigators find their way.
- electricity and magnetism
- produce magnetism
And then it can create huge amounts of magnetism.
- And then it can create huge amounts of magnetism.
- Here's the original magnet, still nice and strong, but these guys lost their magnetism because of the heat.
- And what the neodymium and the sumerium are there for is simply to kind of pin that magnetism in place.
- And so do it enough times and you can make the magnetic field of this look like this and have some fleeting magnetism.
- And I took the physics for B, which is equivalent to AP physics electronics and make magnetism in my senior year.
Examples
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Doctors use magnetism in MRI machines to create detailed images of the body's internal structures.
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The discovery that magnetism could cause electricity was a vital step toward the modern electric world.
Academic text (2000) -
We know, now, that they use magnetism to navigate in their long journeys.
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Now that it was shown that electricity could produce magnetism, the reverse question arose: whether magnetism could produce electricity.
Academic text (2000) -
The results may be bound and become a part of a class journal pertaining to the unit on magnetism and electricity.
Academic text (2001) -
The force that makes the clips cling to the magnet is called magnetism.
Fiction book (1991) -
The ancient Greeks discovered that certain stones exhibited magnetism, attracting iron objects.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Magnetism comes from the word magnet, which was named for a special stone found long ago that seemed to 'pull' iron. So magnetism is the invisible power that makes some metals move toward a magnet.