Magnetic
Meaning
Exhibiting or relating to magnetism.
Pronunciation
UK mæɡˈnetɪk
US mæɡˈnetɪk
Example Sentences
- Before compact discs (CDs) or development of the Internet age, software was used on various computer data storage media tools like paper punch cards, magnetic discs or magnetic tapes.
- The Maglev uses electrically charged magnets to "float" above the track and is propelled by magnetic pulses.
- Scientists believe whales use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate across vast, open oceans.
- Inside a compass is a tiny magnetic needle.
- A later image in polarised light traced magnetic field lines threading the rim, hinting at how such objects fling matter halfway across a galaxy.
Learn Magnetic in Context
Why Whales Travel So FarEvery year, some whales swim thousands of miles across the ocean without stopping to rest. These incredible journeys are called migrations, and they are among the longest animal movements on Earth. Wh...Read story 
What the First Photographs of a Black Hole RevealedA black hole [cannot] be photographed, and yet in 2019 we did exactly that. What the Event Horizon Telescope revealed was never the hole itself, but the silhouette it carves in the incandescent gas or...Read story
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