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  • noun Alternative spelling of magnetization.

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  • noun the extent or degree to which something is magnetized
  • noun the physical property of being magnetic
  • noun the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently)

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Examples

  • From the results of magnetic prospecting, there can be no doubt that this is a huge industrial structure because of its very strong, so called thermoremanent magnetisation, which is characteristic of brick remains.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 11: Geophysical 2003

  • The sound information is entered in the tape in the form of a more or less intense magnetisation in the running direction of the tape and thus stored.

    5. Magnetic Field 1991

  • The theories establish the fact that magnetisation is a phenomenon, not of large masses of iron, but of molecules; that is to say, of portions of the substance so small that we cannot by any mechanical method cut them in two, so as to obtain a north pole separate from the south pole.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • The magnetisation, or the molecular effect, is measured by the deflection of the magnetometer.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • The bar as a whole, nevertheless, exhibits no external magnetisation.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • The stronger the magnetising force, the nearer do the molecules approach to a perfect alignment, and the greater is the induced magnetisation of the bar.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • We may express the relation between cause and effect by a curve in which the abscissa represents the magnetising current, and the ordinate the magnetisation produced (fig.  82).

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • The force which produces that molecular deflection, to which the magnetisation of the bar is immediately due, is the magnetising current flowing round the solenoid.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • The intensity of this induced magnetisation may be measured by noting the deflection it produces on a freely suspended magnet in a magnetometer.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • For example, a common effect of magnetisation is to produce an elongation of an iron rod.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

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