Definitions

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

  • noun A paramagnetic substance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance having paramagnetic as opposed to diamagnetic properties.

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

  • noun A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.

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

  • noun physics Any paramagnetic material

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

  • noun magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it

Etymologies

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

[Back-formation from paramagnetic.]

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Examples

  • LACOSI for short - turns out "LaCoSi" also happens to be the elemental designation of a Pauli paramagnet whatever the hell that is - but it at least has a specific connection with science!

    Lassen County Society of the Illuminati Christopher O'Brien 2007

  • LACOSI for short - turns out "LaCoSi" also happens to be the elemental designation of a Pauli paramagnet whatever the hell that is - but it at least has a specific connection with science!

    Archive 2007-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

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