Paramagnetic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to or being a substance in which an induced magnetic field is parallel and proportional to the intensity of the magnetizing field but is much weaker than in ferromagnetic materials.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. exhibiting paramagnetism
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having or exhibiting paramagnetism; -- opposed to diamagnetic and contrasted with ferromagnetic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Assuming, when freely suspended between the poles of a horseshoe magnet, a position in a line from one pole to the other: magnetic in contradistinction to diamagnetic. See diamagnetism.
  • Of higher permeability than air.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to a paramagnet
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