magnetism

English

Etymology

magnet +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• enPR: mägnĕtĭzm, IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡ.nəˌtɪz.əm/
• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧tism

Noun

magnetism (countable and uncountable, plural magnetisms)

1. (physics) The property of being magnetic.
2. (physics) The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magnetism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• animal magnetism
• archaeomagnetism
• biomagnetism
• chromomagnetism
• diamagnetism
• electromagnetism
• femtomagnetism
• ferrimagnetism
• ferromagnetism
• galvanomagnetism
• geomagnetism
• gravitomagnetism
• gyromagnetism
• heliomagnetism
• metamagnetism
• micromagnetism
• mictomagnetism
• nanomagnetism
• neuromagnetism
• palaeomagnetism
• paleomagnetism
• paramagnetism
• photomagnetism
• phrenomagnetism
• piezomagnetism
• thermomagnetism
• zoomagnetism

 

Translations

the property of being magnetic

• Armenian: մագնիսականություն (hy) (magnisakanutʻyun)
• Asturian: magnetismu
• Basque: magnetismo (eu)
• Catalan: magnetisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磁性 (zh) (cíxìng) (property), 磁學／磁学 (cíxué), 磁学 (cíxué) (science)

• Crimean Tatar: mıqnatislik
• Czech: magnetismus m
• Danish: magnetisme c
• Dutch: magnetisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: magnetismo (eo)
• Faroese: magnetisma f
• Finnish: magnetismi (fi)
• French: magnétisme (fr) m
• Galician: magnetismo
• Georgian: მაგნეტიზმი (magneṭizmi)
• German: Magnetismus (de) m
• Greek: μαγνητισμός (el) m (magnitismós)
• Hebrew: מגנטיות (he) m (magnitism)
• Indonesian: magnetik (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: maighnéadas m, adhmainteas m
• Italian: magnetismo (it) m
• Japanese: 磁気 (ja) (じき, jiki), 磁性 (ja) (じせい, jisei)
• Korean: 자기 (ko) (jagi) (磁氣 (ko))
• Latin: magnetismus, magnētismus
• Norman: manniétisme m (continental Normandy)
• Norwegian: magnetisme m
• Portuguese: magnetismo (pt) m
• Romanian: magnetism (ro) n
• Russian: магнети́зм (ru) m (magnetízm)
• Sardinian: magnetismu m
• Serbo-Croatian: magnetizam (sh) m, магнетизам m
• Sicilian: magnetismu m
• Slovak: magnetizmus m
• Slovene: magnetizem m
• Spanish: magnetismo (es) m
• Swedish: magnetism (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabalnian, balnian
• Telugu: అయస్కాంతత్వము (te) (ayaskāntatvamu)

science which treats of magnetic phenomena

• German: Magnetismus (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

power of attraction; power to excite the feelings

• German: Anziehungskraft (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Swedish

Etymology

magnet +‎ -ism

Noun

magnetism c

1. magnetism

Declension

Declension of magnetism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnetism	magnetismen	—	—
Genitive	magnetisms	magnetismens	—	—

Related terms

• elektromagnetism