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1662 W. Ball Let. 14 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1966) III. 89 I intend to doe something in magneticks.

1672 Philos. Trans. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 6 3069 He ventures to explain almost the whole Philosophy of Magneticks.

1676 R. Hooke Diary 19 Nov. (1935) 258 Resolvd to read next thursday on the Longitude and about magneticks, &c.

1750 S. Wren tr. C. Wren Speech at Gresham College in Parentalia i. §i. 204 This Man [sc. William Gilbert] I would have adored, not only as the sole Inventor of Magneticks, a new Science to be added to the Bulk of Learning, [etc.].

1786 T. Cavallo in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 11 It is a proposition well established in magnetics, that soft iron, or soft steel, acquires magnetism very easily.

1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism (ed. 2) I. 12 In electrostatics and magnetics.

1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) i. 1 (heading) Modern magnetics.

1971 Nature 26 Nov. 187/2 Gravity and magnetics have theorems which limit the amount of interpretation which can be applied to observations of potentials and in general geophysicists work within the confines of these restrictions.

1998 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 83 6804 Many problems in computational magnetics involve computation of fields which decay within a skin depth δ.

1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xli. 694 (heading) Zeeman effect. Solar magnetics.

1972 Nature 22 Dec. 438/1 They have recorded bathymetry, magnetics and gravity along a profile over a ridge striking N 50° W.

1974 Nature 4 Jan. 9/1 A new geophysical model for the Red Sea is presented... The synthetic magnetics is compared with the observed. The fit of the anomalies for the older crust is not quite so good as for the Gulf data.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 945/2 Insight into the nature of the Venusian interior has been gained from..spacecraft-derived measurements of gravity, magnetics, and surface topography.

1965 IEEE Trans. Magnetics Mar. 3/1 The name became Magnetics Group, and its scope:..treatment of all matters in which the dominant factors are the fundamental developments, design, and certain applications of magnetic devices.

1971 Physics Bull. Nov. 646/1 The size of the magnetics market however does not hold any reassurances for research.

1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 1 Aug. c 1/2 Magnetics entered the field of orthodontics in the mid-1980s.