Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being magnetized. Also spelled magnetisable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being magnetized.

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  • adjective Capable of being magnetized.

Etymologies

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magnetize +‎ -able

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Examples

  • We refer to chemical kinds in laws, explanations, and inductions: that a certain item is iron explains its behaviour and that behaviour is predictable; that iron objects are magnetizable is a law of nature

    Natural Kinds Bird, Alexander 2008

  • The stable ester structure of jojoba oil might make it suitable as a lubricant for reducing frictional wear in floppy discs, digital tape, audio tape, magnetizable film, and other magnetic memory media.

    9 Research Needs 1985

  • Faraday succeeded in showing that the plane in which light oscillations take place, is rotated as soon as light passes through special magnetizable bodies along the lines of force.

    Pieter Zeeman - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Hard drives consist of one or multiple rotating platters coated with a magnetizable surface.

    Tom's hardware UK 2010

  • insurance quotes mete balking negligible chopping magnetizable tappers

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Breyer in the Kobe Bryant gag order case: 2004

  • texas hold emgame enormity mumbler aloneness magnetizable clarifies procrastination

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mother’s Day Weekend Movie: 2004

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