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单词 magnetarium
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magnetariumn.

Brit. /maɡnᵻˈtɛːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌmæɡnəˈtɛriəm/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: magnet n., -arium suffix.
Etymology: < magnet n. + -arium suffix.
Now historical.
An instrument for illustrating the magnetism of the earth.The magnetarium consisted of two concentric globes between which was a spherical shell of wire gauze. Around the inner globe wire was coiled in planes at an angle of 23½ degrees to the equator; another wire was coiled in planes round the wire gauze. An electric current passed through both wires gave rise to a magnetic field round the outer globe resembling the earth's field.
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1892 Youth's Compan. June 315/1 Mr. Wilde has constructed a model which he calls a magnetarium.
1894 H. Wilde in Proc. Royal Soc. 55 210 By means of some electro-mechanism, new to experimental science, which [in a paper read in June 1890] I termed a magnetarium, the period of backward rotation [etc.].
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 463/1 Wilde had succeeded in reproducing some of the most conspicuous features of the earth's magnetization by a contrivance called a magnetarium.
1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 714/1 Wilde..invented the magnetarium for reproducing the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism and the secular variation of the mariner's compass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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