Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unmagnetic.

Examples

  • It is impossible to magnetize a magnet without also in this fashion magnetizing the space surrounding the magnet; and the space thus filled with the lines of force possesses properties which ordinary unmagnetic space does not possess.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

  • He was all for outwardness, they say: a thorough externalist; a ritualist cold and unmagnetic.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • He's tongue-tied and unmagnetic at the best; what's more, he has learned too many things to let him flaunt abroad the old beliefs as battle standards.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • The 'magnetic ore separator' is an application of magnetism to the extraction of iron particles from powdered ores and unmagnetic matter.

    Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889

  • The snowy woman is the lifeless seed, the rainless cloud, the unmagnetic lodestone, the drossful iron.

    Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884

  • If she looked doubtfully at this dark, mysterious, unmagnetic man, she remembered it was only for four years, and was as safe as any other experiment; and the author of those two ridiculous attempts at a restoration of the empire, made at Strasbourg and at Boulogne, was not a man to be feared.

    A Short History of France Mary Platt Parmele 1877

  • I think, myself, if every idea our Book contains could be shelled out of its old symbol and put into a new, clean, unmagnetic word, we should have some chance of reading it as philosophers, or wisdom-lovers, ought to read it, -- which we do not and cannot now any more than a Hindoo can read the "Gayatri" as a fair man and lover of truth should do.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • I think, myself, if every idea our Book contains could be shelled out of its old symbol and put into a new, clean, unmagnetic word, we should have some chance of reading it as philosophers, or wisdom-lovers, ought to read it, -- which we do not and cannot now any more than a Hindoo can read the

    The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Then he brought the same end of the bar, first to the point, and then to the eye of the unmagnetic needle, and it attracted them both; so it was evident that there was a considerable difference, in reality, between the condition of the two, though there was no difference in external appearance.

    Rollo's Experiments Jacob Abbott 1841

  • I think, myself, if every idea our Book contains could be shelled out of its old symbol and put into a new, clean, unmagnetic word, we should have some chance of reading it as philosophers, or wisdom-lovers, ought to read it -- which we do not and cannot now, any more than a Hindoo can read the 'Gayatri' as a fair man and lover of truth should do. "

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.