from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Relating to or being a substance in which an induced magnetic field is parallel and proportional to the intensity of the magnetizing field but is much weaker than in ferromagnetic materials.
from The Century Dictionary.
Of higher permeability than air.
Assuming, when freely suspended between the poles of a horseshoe magnet, a position in a line from one pole to the other: magnetic in contradistinction to diamagnetic. See diamagnetism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Physics) Having or exhibiting paramagnetism; -- opposed to diamagnetic and contrasted with ferromagnetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective physics exhibiting paramagnetism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective of or relating to a paramagnet
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word paramagnetic.
Examples
The former he called paramagnetic and the latter diamagnetic bodies.
The first physics with this characteristic was advanced by Pierre Curie as a way to understand phase transitions between ferromagnetic and paramagnetic properties of metals with temperature variation.
She used innovative technologies — mass spectrometer, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electronic paramagnetic resonance — to elucidate organic reactions.
If the oligopolistic competition has power-law falloff and there is increased local competition among agents, then the model has a rich phase diagram with an antiferromagnetic checkerboard state, striped states and maze-like states with varying widths, and finally a paramagnetic state.
Likewise, if a sample of a ferromagnetic material is heated up, at a temperature above its Curie point, it converts into paramagnetic state where the strong order in its spin structure disintegrates and entropy increases, in agreement with the heat influx.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.