magnetiferous
magnetiferous adjective: producing or conducting magnetism.
Adjective
magnetiferous (comparative more magnetiferous, superlative most magnetiferous)
- Producing or conducting magnetism
- First, second and third base magnetiferous strips 70, 72 and 74 may be magnets. However, the inventor has found it more convenient to form these base magnetiferous strips of material that conducts magnetism and place between these strips two magnets 80, 82.1989, Alberto Russo, Magnetic rotary locking and tensioning mechanism, US Patent 49745412, page 5
- Synonyms:
- magnetic
- Containing magnetite
- The ore is a richly magnetiferous Pochuck gneiss.1910, William Shirley Bayley, Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey, page 351
- Observations by Ball and myself in Colorado show that in the case of magnetiferous granites, the magnetite was a mineral of the pegmatite stage.1923, Josiah Edward Spur, The Ore Magmas, page 36
- Synonyms:
- magnetitic
Synonyms of magnetiferous
Forms of magnetiferous
| comparative | more magnetiferous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most magnetiferous |
Origin of magnetiferous
From magneti- + -ferous, from magnet or magnetite.
Words that rhyme with magnetiferous
- melliferous
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- herbiferous
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- mammiferous
- mortiferous
- multiferous
- papyriferous
- pediferous
- pestiferous
- pomiferous
- poriferous
- radiferous
- salutiferous
- seminiferous
- stelliferous
- umbelliferous
- acetabuliferous
- acidiferous
- aeriferous
- agatiferous
- albuminiferous
- aliferous
- alkaliferous
- alumiferous
- aluminiferous
- amberiferous
- amentiferous
- ammonitiferous
- amygdaliferous
- amyliferous
- anatiferous
- angeliferous
- antenniferous
- anthraciferous
- argentiferous
- argilliferous
- armiferous
- astriferous
- auriferous
- bacciferous
- balaniferous
- balsamiferous
- belliferous
- biliferous
- bituminiferous
- branchiferous
- bulbiferous
- byssiferous
- cadmiferous
- calamiferous
- calcariferous
Questions about magnetiferous
- What does magnetiferous mean?
- Magnetiferous means producing or conducting magnetism.
- What part of speech is magnetiferous?
- Magnetiferous is an adjective.
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