different between magnet vs sextupole

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnetum (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

Noun

magnet (plural magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

Anagrams

• Getman

Cebuano

Etymology

From English magnet, from Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "lodestone" from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

magnet

1. a magnet

Czech

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???????? (magnêtis)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ma?n?t]

Noun

magnet m

1. magnet

Related terms

• magi?
• magne?ák
• magnetický
• magnetismus
• magnetizovat
• magnetka
• magnetofon
• magnetosféra
• magnetoskop
• magnetovat
• elektromagnet
• elektromagnetický
• elektromagnetismus

Further reading

• magnet in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

magnet

1. Alternative form of magnete

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ne?t/
• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

màgn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

References

• “magnet” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

magnet c

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

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English

Noun

sextupole (plural sextupoles)

1. (physics) a distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to three dipoles that point in different directions
2. (physics) a magnet with three north poles and three south poles, used to focus or contain a beam of particles