Definition of "magnetisation" []

• Alternative spelling of magnetization. (noun)

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• "From the results of magnetic prospecting, there can be no doubt that this is a huge industrial structure because of its very strong, so called thermoremanent magnetisation, which is characteristic of brick remains."
• "The sound information is entered in the tape in the form of a more or less intense magnetisation in the running direction of the tape and thus stored."
• "The theories establish the fact that magnetisation is a phenomenon, not of large masses of iron, but of molecules; that is to say, of portions of the substance so small that we cannot by any mechanical method cut them in two, so as to obtain a north pole separate from the south pole."