Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to magnetism or magnets.
- adj. Having the properties of a magnet.
- adj. Capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet.
- adj. Operating by means of magnetism: a magnetic recorder.
- adj. Relating to the magnetic poles of the earth: a magnetic compass bearing.
- adj. Having an unusual power or ability to attract: a magnetic personality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the magnet or to magnetism; possessing the properties of the magnet: as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.
- Pertaining to the earth's magnetism: as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian. See phrases below.
- Having properties analogous to those of the magnet; attractive; winning.
- n. Any metal, as iron, steel, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive the properties of the lodestone.
- n. A paramagnetic body, or one which, when free to turn in a magnetic field, sets its longest axis along the lines of magnetic force: in contradistinction to diamagnetic. See diamagnetism.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, operating by, or caused by magnetism
- adj. having the properties of a magnet, especially the ability to draw or pull
- adj. determined by earth's magnetic fields
- adj. having an extraordinary ability to attract
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties
- adj. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism
- adj. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism.
- adj. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.
- adj. Archaic Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; hypnotic. See Magnetism.
- n. obsolete A magnet.
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or caused by magnetism
- adj. having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel
- adj. possessing an extraordinary ability to attract
- adj. determined by earth's magnetic fields
- adj. capable of being magnetized
Examples
“Asylmuratova is one of those rare artists who exemplify the term magnetic.”
“Perhaps the most popularly known fact about sun-spots is that they are somehow connected with what we call magnetic storms on earth.”
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
“As the invisible electrons pass along a wire they produce what we call a magnetic field around the wire, they produce a disturbance in the surrounding ether.”
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
“Now, the man you meet and whom you would not hesitate a moment to ask a favor of, is what I call a magnetic man.”
“Your relay has to be what we call a magnetic starter.”
“He claimed he could cure cancer with what he described as magnetic field vibrations and a "rife generator," for which he charged as much as $11,350 for treatment, police said.”
“There are therefore three "gradations" in magnetic sleep as described in the 1813 Ages: a simplification of the six stages outlined in C.A.F. Klüge's 1811 textbook on the subject, which culminate in "Universal Clarity" or the "removal of veils of time and space," such that "the subject perceives things hidden in the past [and] future”
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
“It will also birth a new industry in magnetic weather modification.”
“Tons of paperclips in magnetic holders, post-it notes and separate containers for pens and pencils finish out that section.”
“[AF] – And so, I found that this dependence can be very strong if one dopes some materials with impurity, for example, and so I propose also what is called now the two current model of the conduction in magnetic materials.”
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