magnate vs magnet
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noun
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
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By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources.
Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
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noun
- a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
- (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field
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This textbook provides a modern and accessible introduction to magnetohydrodynamics.
These infinitesimal particles are usually grouped into four main categories: the mesons, the baryons, the leptons, and the photons (the most basic unit of electromagnetic radiation).
My first explanation is my theory for the sci-fi physics of the electromagnetic storm.
