Magnetic /(?)/
Mag·net·ic
Magnetic
a.
- Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.
- Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.
- Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.
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Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.
She that had all magnetic force alone.
- Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. [Archaic]
Phrases & Compounds
- Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction,
- See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc.
- Magnetic battery
- a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power.
- Magnetic compensator
- a contrivance connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle.
- Magnetic curves
- curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet.
- Magnetic elements
- Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic.
- Magnetic equator
- the line around the equatorial parts of the earth at which there is no magnetic dip, the dipping needle being horizontal; -- called also aclinic line.
- Magnetic fluid
- the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism.
- Magnetic iron
- Same as Magnetite.
- Magnetic needle
- a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's.
- Magnetic poles
- the two points in the opposite polar regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is vertical.
- Magnetic pyrites
- See Pyrrhotite.
- Magnetic storm
- a disturbance of the earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden changes.
- Magnetic telegraph
- a telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.
Magnetic
n.
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A magnet. [Obs.]
As the magnetic hardest iron draws.
- Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.