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Definition of Magnetic medium

1. Noun. Any storage medium in which different patterns of magnetization are used to represent stored bits or bytes of information. "The hard disk in you computer is magnetic storage"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Medium

Literary usage of Magnetic medium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"306) has, however, pointed out that, in considering this question, it is necessary also to take account of the attraction exerted on the magnetic medium (or ..."

2. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1884)
"... THE magnetic medium AND ON THE EFFECTS OF COMPRESSION. [Phil. Mag., April and Dec. 1855, and Jan. 1856. ELECTROSTATICS AND MAGNETISM, Article ..."

3. Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism by William Thomson Kelvin (1872)
"... to Professor Tyndall on the "magnetic medium" and on the Effects of Compression. [From the Philosophical Magazine, April 1855.] [Editorial. ..."

4. A Text-book of Physics: Including a Collection of Examples and Questions by William Watson (1920)
"In any portion of a magnetic field which is filled with non-magnetic medium, all the tubes offeree are due to causes (currents, magnets, &c. ..."

5. Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-crystallic Action: Including the by John Tyndall (1870)
"In the downfall of hypotheses thus pending, the great question of a universal magnetic medium has presented itself to your mind. Your researches incline you ..."

6. Principles of Electrical Engineering by Harold Pender (1911)
"Field Intensity at any Point in magnetic medium of Constant Permeability Completely Surrounding a Point-Pole and Filling all Space.—An important relation in ..."

7. A Treatise on Electricity by Frederick Bernard Pidduck (1916)
"Work done in taking a unit magnetic pole round a current in a magnetic medium. The general work theorem requires no modification when the current is in a ..."

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