MAGNETISM
\mˈaɡnɪtˌɪzəm], \mˈaɡnɪtˌɪzəm], \m_ˈa_ɡ_n_ɪ_t_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of MAGNETISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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That property possessed by various bodies, as iron or steel, of attracting or repelling each other; the force to which this attraction is due; the science that treats of the laws of physical attraction and repulsion; personal attraction.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The property of mutual attraction or repulsion possessed by magnets. 2. The science which has to do with magnets and their properties.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The cause of the attractive power of the magnet: attraction: the science which treats of the properties of the magnet.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The magnetic property and its phenomena; that branch of science which treats of the properties of the magnet and magnetic phenomena; power of attraction. Animal magnetism, a supposed agent of a mysterious nature, said to have a powerful influence on a patient when acted upon by contact of the operator. See Mesmerism. Terrestrial magnetism, the magnetic influence exerted by the earth.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The peculiar attractive and repulsive power of the natural magnet or loadstone; the peculiar property or power possessed by many mineral bodies, by which, under certain circumstances, they attract and repel one another according to determinate laws; the cause of the attractive power of the magnet; the science which investigates the phenomena and laws of the attractive power of the magnet, and other bodies in a magnetic state.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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