English to English
adjective
- relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet
source: WordNet 3.0
- Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.
source: Webster 1913
