Meanings
comparative more magnetiferous · superlative most magnetiferous
- datedProducing 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 5Synonyms: magnetic
- geographyContaining magnetite
The ore is a richly magnetiferous Pochuck gneiss.
1910, William Shirley Bayley, Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey, page 3511 more example
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 36Synonyms: magnetitic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveProducing or conducting magnetism
adjectiveContaining magnetite
Origin
From magneti- + -ferous, from magnet or magnetite.
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