magnetoid

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noun

a supermassive rotating highly magnetized star at the center of a compact galactic nucleus.

OriginEnglish magnet ← Middle English magnete ← Latin magnēs →
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Meanings

nounmagnetoid (plural magnetoids)

plural magnetoids

  1. astrophysicsa supermassive rotating highly magnetized star at the center of a compact galactic nucleus.

    A young black hole formed in the center of galaxy can develop into the cocooned black hole or, as extreme possibility, into a magnetoid with a black hole inside.

    1981, Victor J. Stenger, Dumand-80, page 194

Origin

  1. Old Frenchmagnete
  2. Ancient GreekΜάγνης (Mágnēs)
  3. Ancient Greekμᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)
  4. Latinmagnēs
  5. Middle Englishmagnete
  6. Englishmagnet
  7. Englishmagnetoid

From magnet + -oid.

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