magnetospheric

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.

OriginEnglish magnetosphere ← Middle English spere ← Old French sphere →
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Meanings

adjectivemagnetospheric (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.

    The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.

    2002, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hŏn-yŏng Chang (editors), Current High-energy Emission Around Black Holes, page 36

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΜάγνης (Mágnēs)
  2. Ancient Greekμᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)
  3. Old Frenchmagnete
  4. Ancient Greekμᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)
  5. Latinmagnēs
  6. Middle Englishmagnete
  7. Englishmagnet
  8. Englishmagnet-
  9. Englishmagneto-
  10. Ancient Greekσφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)
  11. Latinsphaera
  12. Late Latinsphēra
  13. Old Frenchsphere
  14. Middle Englishspere
  15. Englishsphere
  16. Englishmagnetosphere
  17. Englishmagnetospheric

From magnetosphere + -ic.

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APA

magnetospheric. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/magnetospheric

MLA

“magnetospheric.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/magnetospheric. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “magnetospheric,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/magnetospheric.

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