Magnetize meaning

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To make magnetic.
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To attract, charm, or influence.

A campaign speech that magnetized the crowd.

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To make into a magnet; give magnetic properties to (steel, iron, etc.)
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To attract or charm (a person), often in an almost hypnotic way.
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To become magnetic.
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To cause an object to become temporarily or permanently magnetic. For example, an unmagnetized object made of ferromagnetic material consists of molecules that are magnetic but randomly aligned, producing no net magnetic field; exposure to a magnetic field causes the molecules to align themselves with the field, producing their own net field, so that the object as a whole becomes magnetized.
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(physics) To make magnetic.
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To attract, allure or entice (someone)
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Origin of magnetize

  • magnet +"Ž -ize

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Magnetize Sentence Examples

  • It had long been known that the discharges from a Leyden jar could magnetize or demagnetize steel needles.

  • The most interesting of his discoveries, now generally known as the " Wiedemann effect," is the following: If we magnetize longitudinally a straight wire which is fixed at one end and free at the other, and then pass an electric current through the wire (or first pass the current and then magnetize), the free end of the wire will twist in a certain direction depending upon circumstances: if the wire is of iron, and is magnetized (with a moderate force) so that its free end has north polarity, while the current through it passes from the fixed to the free end, then the free end as seen from the fixed end will twist in the direction of the hands of a watch; if either the magnetization or the current is reversed, the direction of the twist will be reversed.

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