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

And does this magnetic charge or friction heat, or whatever it is, act more promptly if one keeps on ‘striking the iron while hot,’ instead of letting the charge ‘evaporate’ and sneak away between strokes?

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough