[
US
/ˈmæɡnɪˌtaɪzd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel
the hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material
How To Use magnetized In A Sentence
- This magnetizes the iron bar as long as the current is switched on, on switching off the electricity, it gets demagnetized. Do you find me attractive?
- Perpendicular recording enables the bits to be magnetized on end, perpendicular to the disk surface (rather than parallel to the surface).
- The fact that a material can be magnetized does not necessarily mean that it will retain its magnetism once the applied magnetic field has been removed.
- Subsequent tests suggested that the cells magnetized only when they contained some rubidium metal inside, a by-product of the helium alignment procedure.
- The next step was to chemically link these highly specific antibodies to small magnetised polystyrene spheres.
- He placed a magnetized sphere, a "terrella" representing the Earth, inside a vacuum chamber, aimed a beam of electrons towards it and could see that they were steered by the magnetic field to the vicinity of its magnetic poles. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
- The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings
- Each had wandered all the night, through footway and skyway, unconscious of his surroundings, yet both were drawn inevitably together like two magnetized needles floating on a weed choked pond. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
- A demagnetised, insulated shaft, posidrive subminiature screwdriver with his name engraved on it
- Such an approach can explain such phenomena as how magnets become magnetised only below a certain critical temperature. Times, Sunday Times