magnetize
/ˈmaɡnɪtʌɪz
/(also magnetise)
verb [with object]
Give magnetic properties to: the current creates a field to magnetize the core in alternate directions (as adjective magnetized) a compass is really a magnetized needle...
- Because the string is magnetized, the magnetic field surrounding it will also vibrate with the string.
- Placing it close enough to a magnet or placing it in a strong electromagnetic field can magnetize non - magnetized magnetite.
- When the material is magnetized, usually by applying a high intensity pulse from an external magnetizing field, many of the individual domains rotate so that they are aligned with the external field.
Derivatives
magnetizable
- The main impact of the diamagnetic components is dilution of the strongly magnetizable minerals.
- All soils have some potentially magnetizable components, the nature of the ferrous mineralization and particle size being a major influencing factor.
- Steel can be magnetizable or not according to the percentage of carbon in the steel.
magnetization
/ noun ...- The injected electrons caused the magnetization of the destination layer to wobble and emit microwaves, just as blowing into a whistle generates sound waves.
- Sometimes the magnetic moment in one direction is larger than that in the other and the material shows some degree of magnetization at high enough magnetic fields.
- The bar magnet gets its overall magnetization because all of these little component magnets are pointing in the same direction, and add up for an overall effect.
magnetizer
- Magnetized patients might be impervious to pain, obey the magnetizer's suggestions, or display abnormal abilities.
- In order to do this, he had to pierce the spiritual fog surrounding somnambulism, a fog that was traceable, in large part, to the practices of Franz Anton Mesmer and the ‘animal magnetizers’ of Europe.
- ‘The Scherzo’, says M. Berlioz, ‘is an extraordinary composition’; the very opening, though containing nothing terrible in itself, produces the same inexplicable emotion that is caused by the gaze of a magnetiser [i.e. mesmerist].