magnetic attraction

Questions about magnetic attraction

What does magnetic attraction mean?

magnetic attraction means "attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force".

What is another word for magnetic attraction?

Close synonyms include magnetism, magnetic force. 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 magnetic attraction a common word?

magnetic attraction 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.