WordNet
n. attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force [syn: magnetism, magnetic force]
Usage examples of "magnetic attraction".
Although Kolya had more questions, his eyes had lit on a rack of blank, low-bias cassette tapes which held a magnetic attraction for him.
The moving charges constitute currents moving in the same direction, which accordingly generate a magnetic attraction between them.
He should have been strong enough to resist the magnetic attraction he felt for her, that dizzying pull of longing.
It required the awakening of that overruling interest in material nature, characteristic of our own age, for the essential difference between electric and magnetic attraction to be recognized.
If these, being pieces of the larger meteorite which was buried in the hole, were non-magnetic, all of it must be non-magnetic, which would account for the failure of the needle to act or manifest any magnetic attraction in the greater test.
It is the frustrated magnetic attraction of her essential liquid self to the planet’.
Most of Monday found Harry Keogh trying without success to break the magnetic attraction of his sons psyche.
The argument of two people who had seen many hunts proved a magnetic attraction.
But thanks to the unceasing flood of oil money into Houston, and the magnetic attraction of the industry for petroleum workers and service industries, his turnover was very fast, and his marginal profits multiplied.