magnet
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
magnet/ˈmaɡnət/
▶noun
- 1 a piece of iron or other material which has the property of attracting iron-containing objects or aligning itself in an external magnetic field.
- 2 a person or thing that has a powerful attraction.
– origin ME: from L. magnes, magnet-, from Gk magnēs lithos ‘lodestone’, prob. influenced by Anglo-Norman Fr. magnete.
'magnet' also found in these Oxford entries:
armature
- electret
- electromagnet
- keeper
- lodestone
- magnetic moment
- magnetic north
- magnetic pole
- magneto
- magneto-
- negative pole
- paramagnetic
- permanent magnet
- pole
- positive pole
- solenoid
- transverse magnet
