Crossword clues for magnetism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnetism \Mag"net*ism\, n. [Cf. F. magn['e]tisme.] The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet. At one time it was believed to be separate from the electrical force, but it is now known to be intimately associated with electricity, as part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism.
2. The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to
gain the affections. ``By the magnetism of interest our
affections are irresistibly attracted.''
--Glanvill.
Animal magnetism, Same as hypnotism, at one time believe to be due to a force more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it was alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another with or without actual contact. The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by Mesmer in 1775. His theories and methods were afterwards called mesmerism, a name which has been popularly applied to theories and claims not put forward by Mesmer himself. See Mesmerism, Biology, Od, Hypnotism.
Terrestrial magnetism, the magnetic force exerted by the earth, and recognized by its effect upon magnetized needles and bars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being magnetic 2 The science which treats of magnetic phenomena. 3 Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
WordNet
n. attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force [syn: magnetic attraction, magnetic force]
the branch of science that studies magnetism [syn: magnetics]
Wikipedia
Magnetism is a class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, which acts on other currents and magnetic moments. Every material is influenced to some extent by a magnetic field. The most familiar effect is on permanent magnets, which have persistent magnetic moments caused by ferromagnetism. The prefix refers to iron, because permanent magnetism was first observed in a form of natural iron ore called magnetite, FeO. Most materials do not have permanent moments. Some are attracted to a magnetic field ( paramagnetism); others are repulsed by a magnetic field ( diamagnetism); others have a more complex relationship with an applied magnetic field ( spin glass behavior and antiferromagnetism). Substances that are negligibly affected by magnetic fields are known as non-magnetic substances. These include copper, aluminium, gases, and plastic. Pure oxygen exhibits magnetic properties when cooled to a liquid state.
The magnetic state (or magnetic phase) of a material depends on temperature and other variables such as pressure and the applied magnetic field. A material may exhibit more than one form of magnetism as these variables change.
Magnetism may refer to:
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials.
- Magnetism (neurological sign), physical sign in neurology
- The Magnetism of the Rod, Victorian pornography
- Animal magnetism, variously sexual attraction, vital force or hypnotism
- Magnetism (album), an album by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp
Magnetism is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp which was recorded in 1999 and released on the French Bleu Regard label. The work is a twenty-movement suite composed of solo, duo and trio performances by Shipp, saxophonist and flutist Rob Brown and bassist William Parker.
Usage examples of "magnetism".
Thus similarity of temperament results in barrenness while dissimilarity makes the vital magnetism all the more powerful.
The assertive blatancy of his clothes was just part of the malevolent animal magnetism that had affected Bond from the beginning.
Childhood incidents and the compelling magnetism of Bret Cavanaugh make Jessica Butler a heroine you will not soon forget.
English and American operators fail to see any distinction between magnetism and hypnotism, and suppose that the effect of passes, etc.
Initiation was a school, in which were taught the truths of primitive revelation, the existence and attributes of one God, the immortality of the Soul, rewards and punishments in a future life, the phenomena of Nature, the arts, the sciences, morality, legislation, philosophy, and philanthropy, and what we now style psychology and metaphysics, with animal magnetism, and the other occult sciences.
Luckily, that volume has already been written, following in great detail the path from the Egyptians to modern times, including the strange effects of Meissner fields, superconductivity, and magnetism.
For, by regarding the old and new continents as two distinct masses of land whose bases are separated by 6,000 miles of water, we recognize two great magnets, dependent, however, for their magnetism, on the rotation of the terral vortex.
It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.
His steady, riveting gaze carried a warmth through that thin thread of magnetism that connected them, setting her blood asimmer and her heart racing.
By some alchemy of nature, at which I could only guess, it was on the track by which the North exercised its spell, a cableway for the magnetism of that cruel frozen Uttermost, which man might penetrate but could never subdue or understand.
Villefort, without seeking any further explanation, and attracted towards him by the irresistible magnetism which draws us towards those who have loved the people for whom we mourn, extended his hand towards the young man.
It combined all the best features of osteopathy, chiropracty, magnetism, homeopathy, and other systems of drugless medicine.
I have been showing my audience to-day that magnetism and matter created the earths, that light and heat created the heavens.
Nevertheless, he was a man of forceful ability and personal magnetism, possessed standing in Lapan as a soldier and leader and was popular and influential among his own people.
For, by regarding the old and new continents as two distinct masses of land whose bases are separated by 6,000 miles of water, we recognize two great magnets, dependent, however, for their magnetism, on the rotation of the terral vortex.