bar magnet

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   a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end

   Broadermagnet

Questions about bar magnet

What does bar magnet mean?

bar magnet means "a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end".

Is bar magnet a common word?

bar magnet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.