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.
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.
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adj. of or relating to a paramagnet
Word Usage
"The former he called paramagnetic and the latter diamagnetic bodies."