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The lagging of an effect behind its cause
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hysteresis
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Wikipedia
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In economics , hysteresis refers to the possibility that periods of high unemployment tend to increase the rate-of-unemployment-below-which-inflation-begins-to-accelerate, commonly referred to as the natural rate of unemployment or non-accelerating inflation ...
WordNet
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n. the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1805, from Greek hysteresis "a coming short, a deficiency."
Wiktionary
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n. A property of a system such that an output value is not a strict function of the corresponding input, but also incorporates some lag, delay, or history dependence, and in particular when the response for a decrease in the input variable is different ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hysteresis \Hys`te*re"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? to be behind, to lag.] (Physics) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition ...
Usage examples of hysteresis.
We assume a kind of inertia, or hysteresis effect, or special conservation law for time travel.
Normally, eddy current and hysteresis losses in the transformers would keep the station toast-warm.
When you apply those from the power source, you'll get eddy current heating inside the rock from hysteresis effects.
Gillette claims to have done slow-motion microphotography that shows hysteresis actually works, and, in an Esquire magazine article on this subject some years ago, a spokesman for Bic, one of Gillette's chief competitors, admitted his firm couldn't prove hysteresis didn't work.