curie temperature

1. 1.

   the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic

   SynonymsCurie point

   Broadertemperature

Questions about curie temperature

What does curie temperature mean?

curie temperature means "the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic".

What is another word for curie temperature?

Close synonyms include Curie point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curie temperature a common word?

curie temperature 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.