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
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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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