magnetic charge

American  

[mag-net-ik chahrj] / mægˈnɛt ɪk ˈtʃɑrdʒ /

noun

1. Physics. a hypothetical property, comparable to electric charge, attributed to a magnetic monopole.

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magnetic charge Scientific  

1. A theoretical property or matter manifesting magnetic property, analogous to electric charge, arising from magnetic monopoles.

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Example Sentences

These monopoles glide across the swirling textures on the surface of the hematite, like tiny hockey pucks of magnetic charge.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

This feels at once uncanny and also just the way young people move through feeling, like a school of fish following a magnetic charge.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022

Held in the mesh of gravity and spin, a skein of quantum magnetic charge, the Muon persists, outlives its foreseeable wobble.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2022

Professor Ehrenhaft thinks that oxygen "bears a magnetic charge" like the north pole and was therefore repelled.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still held to the idea of a pervading fluid and maintained that the depth of the magnetic sleep depended upon the amount of the magnetic charge.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton