electromagnet

English

Alternative forms

• electro-magnet

Etymology

From electro- +‎ magnet.

Pronunciation

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Noun

electromagnet (plural electromagnets)

1. A magnet which attracts metals only when electrically activated.
   • 2010, “Electromagnetism”, in Snap Circuits‎^[1], Elenco, page 1:

     Hold the electromagnet near something made of iron and push the switch (S2). […] Large electromagnets are used to move things around at factories and junkyards.

Coordinate terms

• solenoid

Derived terms

• Bitter electromagnet
• electromagnetic

Translations

magnet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電磁體 / 电磁体, 電磁鐵 / 电磁铁 (zh) (diàncítiě)

• Czech: elektromagnet m
• Danish: elektromagnet (da) c
• Dutch: elektromagneet (nl) f
• Esperanto: elektromagneto
• Finnish: sähkömagneetti (fi)
• French: électro-aimant (fr) m
• German: Elektromagnet (de) n
• Greek: ηλεκτρομαγνήτης m (ilektromagnítis)
• Hindi: वैद्युतचुंबक (vaidyutcumbak), विद्युत् चुंबक (vidyut cumbak)
• Icelandic: rafsegull (is) m
• Irish: leictreamaighnéad m
• Italian: elettromagnete (it) m, elettrocalamita (it) f
• Japanese: 電磁石 (ja)
• Korean: 전자석 (ko) (jeonjaseok)
• Macedonian: електрома́гнет m (elektromágnet)
• Maori: autōhiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektromagnet m

  Nynorsk: elektromagnet m

• Portuguese: eletroímã (pt) m (Brazil), eletroíman m (Portugal)
• Russian: электромагни́т (ru) m (elektromagnít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електрома̀гне̄т m

  Roman: elektromàgnēt (sh) m

• Spanish: electroimán (es) m
• Swedish: elektromagnet (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagitabalani
• Thai: แม่เหล็กไฟฟ้า (mɛ̂ɛ-lèk-fai-fáa)
• Urdu: برقناطیس m (barqnatees)

Further reading

• Article on electromagnets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Elektromagnet. By surface analysis, electro- +‎ magnet.

Noun

electromagnet m (plural electromagneți)

1. electromagnet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	electromagnet	electromagnetul		electromagneți	electromagneții
genitive-dative	electromagnet	electromagnetului		electromagneți	electromagneților
vocative	electromagnetule			electromagneților