Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A diamagnetic substance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A diamagnetic substance.

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

  • noun A body having diamagnetic polarity.

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  • noun physics Any material that exhibits diamagnetism

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  • noun a substance that exhibits diamagnetism

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From diamagnetic.]

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Examples

  • A marble statue, on the contrary, has its feet a south pole, and its head a north pole, and there is no doubt that the same remark applies to its living archetype; each man walking over the earth's surface is a true diamagnet, with its poles the reverse of those of a mass of magnetic matter of the same shape and position.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

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