magnet

See also: magnet- and Magnet

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnete, 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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡnət/

• Audio (UK)

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• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

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.

   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:

     Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.

   • 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

• babe magnet
• bar magnet
• chick magnet
• chickmagnet
• diamagnet
• electret
• electromagnet
• ferrimagnet
• ferromagnet
• fridge magnet
• helimagnet
• magnetarium
• magnetic
• magnetical
• magnetify
• magnetimeter
• magnetionic
• magnetise
• magnetism
• magnetite
• magnetize
• magnetlike
• magneto
• magnetod
• magneton
• magnet school
• man magnet
• metamagnet
• micromagnet
• nanomagnet
• nonmagnet
• paramagnet
• permanent magnet
• speromagnet

 

Related terms

• Magnesia
• magnetic
• magnetism
• magnetite

 

Coordinate terms

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

Translations

piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism

• Akkadian: 𒍝 𒍝𒁉𒌈 (abnu ṣābittu), 𒃻𒁕𒉡 𒍝𒁉𒌈 (šadanu ṣābittu)
• Albanian: magnet (sq) m
• Amharic: መግነጢስ (mägnäṭis)
• Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس‎ m (maḡnāṭīs)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِغْنَاطِيس‎ m (miḡnāṭīs)

• Armenian: մագնիս (hy) (magnis)
• Assamese: চুম্বক (sumbok), অয়স্কান্ত (oyoskanto)
• Asturian: imán (ast) m
• Aymara: achkatasiri
• Azerbaijani: maqnit
• Basque: iman
• Belarusian: магні́т m (mahnít)
• Bengali: অয়স্কান্ত (bn) (ôẏôśkant), চুম্বক (cumbôk)
• Bulgarian: магни́т m (magnít)
• Burmese: သံလိုက် (my) (samluik)
• Catalan: imant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 攝石, 摄石 (sip³ sek⁶)

  Dungan: щитешы (xiti͡əšɨ)

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

  Min Nan: 吸石 (zh-min-nan) (khip-chio̍h)

• Cornish: tennven m
• 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), मक़नातीस m (maqnātīs)
• Hungarian: mágnes (hu)
• Icelandic: segull (is) m
• Indonesian: magnet (id), sembrani (id), besi berani (id)
• Interlingua: magnete
• Inupiaq: nipitchak
• 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:

  Central Kurdish: مەقناتیس‎ (meqnatîs)

• 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 berani, besi semberani, magnet
• Manx: magnaid f
• Maori: autō
• Mongolian: соронз (mn) (soronz)
• Norwegian: magnet m
• Pashto: مقناطيس‎ m (meqnātís)
• Persian: آهنربا‎ (fa) (âhanrobâ), مغنیطیس‎ (mağnitis) (archaic)
• Polish: magnes (pl) m
• Portuguese: ímã (pt) m (Brazil), íman (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: magnet (ro) m
• Russian: магни́т (ru) m (magnít)
• Rusyn: маґнет m (magnet)
• Scottish Gaelic: magnait m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̀гне̄т m

  Roman: màgnēt (sh) m

• Shan: သၢၼ်ႇလႅၵ်ႉ (sàan lâ̰ek)
• Slovak: magnet m
• Slovene: magnet (sl) m
• Spanish: imán (es) m, magnete m
• Swahili: sumaku 9
• Swedish: magnet (sv) c
• Tagalog: batubalani, gayuma
• Tajik: магнит (tg) (magnit), оҳанрабо (tg) (ohanrabo)
• Tamil: காந்தம் (ta) (kāntam)
• Telugu: అయస్కాంతము (te) (ayaskāntamu), అయస్కాంతం (te) (ayaskāntaṃ)
• Thai: แม่เหล็ก (th) (mɛ̂ɛ-lèk)
• Tibetan: སྐུད་འདྲེན་ལེན་པོ (skud 'dren len po), ཁད་ལོང (khad long), ཁབ་ལོང (khab long), ཁབ་ལེན་རྡོ (khab len rdo), རྡོ་ཁབ་ལེན (rdo khab len)
• Turkish: mıknatıs (tr), çaşak
• Turkmen: magnit
• Ukrainian: магні́т m (mahnít)
• Urdu: مقناطیس‎ m (maqnātīs)
• Uyghur: ماگنىت‎ (magnit)
• Uzbek: magnit (uz)
• Vietnamese: nam châm (vi)
• Welsh: magnet m
• Yiddish: מאַגנעט‎ m (magnet)
• Zhuang: yapsig
• Zulu: uzibuthe 1a or 2a

See also

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

Anagrams

• Getman

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Cebuano

Etymology

From English magnet, from 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).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mag‧net

Noun

magnet

1. a magnet

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Czech

Etymology

Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɡnɛt]

Noun

magnet m

1. magnet

Related terms

• magič
• magneťák
• magnetický
• magnetismus
• magnetizovat
• magnetka
• magnetofon
• magnetosféra
• magnetoskop
• magnetovat
• elektromagnet
• elektromagnetický
• elektromagnetismus

Further reading

• magnet in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Middle English

Noun

magnet

1. Alternative form of magnete

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. a magnet

Derived terms

• elektromagnet
• magnetfelt

 

Related terms

• magnetisk
• magnetisme

 

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

Derived terms

• elektromagnet
• magnetfelt

 

Related terms

• magnetisk
• magnetisme

 

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