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compound magnet

American

noun

a magnet consisting of two or more separate magnets placed together with like poles pointing in the same direction.

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And there is no doubt that each of us human beings is a compound magnet on his own account, depending for his welfare on magnetic force.

From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane, Arthur

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