Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paramagnetic substance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A substance having paramagnetic as opposed to diamagnetic properties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A substance exhibiting
paramagnetism , i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics Any
paramagnetic material
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Back-formation from paramagnetic.]
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Examples
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LACOSI for short - turns out "LaCoSi" also happens to be the elemental designation of a Pauli paramagnet whatever the hell that is - but it at least has a specific connection with science!
Lassen County Society of the Illuminati Christopher O'Brien 2007
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LACOSI for short - turns out "LaCoSi" also happens to be the elemental designation of a Pauli paramagnet whatever the hell that is - but it at least has a specific connection with science!
Archive 2007-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007
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