Definitions

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

  • noun Any of a group of nonmetallic, ceramiclike, usually ferromagnetic compounds of ferric oxide with other oxides, especially such a compound characterized by extremely high electrical resistivity and used in computer memory elements, permanent magnets, and various solid-state devices.
  • noun Iron that has not combined with carbon, occurring commonly in steel, cast iron, and pig iron below 910°C.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term proposed by Vogelsang to include indeterminable mineral substances of a reddish color, frequently observed in certain igneous rocks when they are examined in thin sections under the microscope. They probably consist in most cases of hydrous oxid of iron.
  • noun In chem.: A compound of ferric oxid (Fe2O3) with a more basic metallic oxid, as calcium ferrite (CaFe2O4), from the union of ferric oxid with lime (CaO). The mineral franklinite consists essentially of zinc ferrite, and magnetite or magnetic iron ore (Fe3O4) may be viewed as iron ferrite (FeO.Fe2O3).
  • noun Pure iron as separated out (from iron carbides) in the cooling of steel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron
  • noun any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers
  • noun inorganic chemistry The anion FeO22-, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Latin ferrum ("iron"), from Semitic (compare Phoenician  (barzel)), +‎ -ite.

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Examples

  • First of all, use what's called the ferrite bead on your wired headset.

    CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008 2008

  • Some strontium (10%) is used to make special magnets called ferrite ceramic magnets.

    Strontium 2008

  • As Monzon explains, the kind of ferrite used in the new lens must exhibit a negative permeability in the GHz range, meaning that light waves passing through a flat lens will converge to an image.

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  • It was established in 1935 to commercialize "ferrite," a key material in electronics and magnetics.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • If the core comprises high-resistivity material, such as ferrite, the eddy current is low, and eddy-current loss is insignificant in SMPS applications.

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  • If the core comprises high-resistivity material, such as ferrite, the eddy current is low, and eddy-current loss is insignificant in SMPS applications.

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  • If the core comprises high-resistivity material, such as ferrite, the eddy current is low, and eddy-current loss is insignificant in SMPS applications.

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  • Too much or too little ferrite can make the steel brittle, weak or otherwise unsuitable for use in automobiles.

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  • The engineers are running programs that show how adding tiny amounts of alloys to ferrite and martensite—crystalline structures of iron—during the steelmaking process changes the steel's strength, as well as its ability to be shaped into different parts.

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  • Even if ‘doing it on his own’ involved nothing more strenuous than taking prepackaged parts from Radio Shack and soldering them together (seriously, have you even tried to wind your own ferrite variable coil?).

    I Hate the RAW « Geek Related 2010

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