demagnetize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Etymology
Origin of demagnetize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Because electric motors often operate at high temperatures, thermal effects can also partially demagnetize these materials, making the energy loss problem even more complicated.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Pumping too much current into the device would cause it to overheat and demagnetize.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024
The geophysicists were able to determine what that paleointensity was by heating single crystals to demagnetize them, and then reheating the samples in the presence of a magnetic field to impart magnetization.
From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2019
"We had to demagnetize the building," she says, a painstaking process that required passing an electromagnet over every square meter of the walls.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 29, 2017
Lodge devised a similar arrangement called a coherer, and E. Rutherford invented a magnetic detector depending on the power of electric oscillations to demagnetize iron or steel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
