magnet

See also: magnet- and Magnet

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡnət/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

Etymology

Via Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "lodestone" from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

A stack of ferrite magnets

Noun

magnet (plural magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.

   He always had a girl on his arm - he's a bit of a babe-magnet.

   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     ...I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.

Derived terms

Terms derived from magnet

• babe magnet
• bar magnet
• chickmagnet
• chick magnet
• diamagnet
• electromagnet
• ferrimagnet
• ferromagnet
• fridge magnet
• helimagnet
• magnetarium

• magnetic
• magnetical
• magnetify
• magnetimeter
• magnetionic
• magnetise
• magnetism
• magnetite
• magnetize
• magnetlike
• magneto

• magnetod
• magnet school
• man magnet
• metamagnet
• micromagnet
• nanomagnet
• nonmagnet
• paramagnet
• permanent magnet
• speromagnet

Related terms

• magnetic
• magnetism
• magnetite
• Magnesia

Translations

piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism

• Akkadian: ^{(please verify)} abnu ṣābittu
• Albanian: magnet (sq) m
• Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس‎ m (maḡnāṭīs)
• Armenian: մագնիս (hy) (magnis)
• Asturian: imán m
• Azeri: maqnit
• Basque: iman
• Belarusian: магні́т m (mahnít)
• Bengali: অয়স্কান্ত (ôyôskantô)
• Bulgarian: магни́т m (magnít)
• Burmese: သံလိုက် (my) (samluik)
• Catalan: imant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磁鐵 (zh), 磁铁 (zh) (cítiě), 磁石 (zh) (císhí)

• Crimean Tatar: mıqnatis
• Czech: magnet (cs) m
• Danish: magnet (da) c
• Dutch: magneet (nl) f
• Esperanto: magneto (eo)
• Estonian: magnet (et)
• Finnish: magneetti (fi)
• French: aimant (fr) m
• Galician: imán m
• Georgian: მაგნიტი (magniṭi)
• German: Magnet (de) m
• Greek: μαγνήτης (el) m (magnítis)
• Hebrew: מַגְנֵט‎ (he) m (magnét)
• Hindi: चुंबक (hi) m (cumbak)
• Hungarian: mágnes (hu)
• Icelandic: segull (is) m
• Indonesian: magnet (id)
• Irish: maighnéad m, adhmaint f
• Italian: magnete (it) m, calamita (it) f
• Japanese: 磁石 (ja) (じしゃく, jishaku)
• Kalmyk: сорнц (sornts)
• Kazakh: магнит (magnït)
• Khmer: មេដែក (km) (mee daek)
• Korean: 자석 (ko) (jaseok)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: مه‌قناتیس‎

• Kyrgyz: магнит (magnit)
• Lao: ແມ່ເຫຼັກ (lo) (mǣ lek), ແມ່ເຫລັກ (mǣ lek)
• Latin: magnes m
• Latvian: magnēts m
• Lithuanian: magnetas m
• Macedonian: магнет m (magnet)
• Malay: besi semberani, magnet
• Maori: autō
• Mongolian: соронзон (soronzon)
• Norwegian: magnet m
• Persian: آهنربا‎ (fa) (âhanrobâ)
• Polish: magnes (pl) m
• Portuguese: ímã (pt) m
• Romanian: magnet (ro) m
• Russian: магни́т (ru) m (magnít)
• Scottish Gaelic: magnait m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: магнет m

  Roman: magnet (sh) m

• Slovak: magnet m
• Slovene: magnet (sl) m
• Spanish: imán (es) m, magnete m
• Swahili: sumaku class 9
• Swedish: magnet (sv) c
• Tagalog: batubalani, gayuma
• Tajik: магнит (tg) (magnit), оҳанрабо (tg) (ohanrabo)
• Tamil: காந்தம் (ta) (kāntam)
• Telugu: అయస్కాంతము (te) (ayaskāṃtamu), అయస్కాంతం (te) (ayaskāṃtaṃ)
• Thai: แม่เหล็ก (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-lèk)
• Turkish: mıknatıs (tr)
• Turkmen: magnit
• Ukrainian: магні́т m (mahnít)
• Urdu: مقناطیس‎ m (maqnatīs)
• Uzbek: magnit (uz)
• Vietnamese: nam châm (vi)
• Yiddish: מאַגנעט‎ m (magnet)

See also

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

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Czech

Noun

magnet m

1. magnet

Related terms

• magnetický
• magnetismus

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)

1. a magnet

Related terms

• magnetisk
• magnetisme

Derived terms

• elektromagnet
• magnetfelt

References

• “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)

1. a magnet

Related terms

• magnetisk
• magnetisme

Derived terms

• elektromagnet
• magnetfelt

References

• “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎɡneːt/
• Hyphenation: mag‧net

Noun

màgnēt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀гне̄т)

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

Declension of magnet

	singular	plural
nominative	màgnēt	magneti
genitive	magnéta	magneta
dative	magnetu	magnetima
accusative	magnet	magnete
vocative	magnete	magneti
locative	magnetu	magnetima
instrumental	magnetom	magnetima

References

• “magnet” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Swedish

Noun

magnet c

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

Declension of magnet
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnet	magneten	magneter	magneterna
Genitive	magnets	magnetens	magneters	magneternas

Related terms

• magnetisera
• magnetisk
• magnetisör