- behaving like a magnet; that can be attracted by a magnet
- magnetic materials
- Steel is magnetic.
- The block becomes magnetic when the current is switched on.
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- connected with or produced by magnetism
- magnetic properties/forces
- a magnetic disk (= one containing magnetic material that stores information to be used by a computer)
- that people find very powerful and attractive
- a magnetic personality
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin magneticus, from Latin magneta, from Greek magnēs lithos ‘lodestone’, probably influenced by Anglo-Norman French magnete (from Latin magnes, magnet-).
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