magnetic head

1. 1.

   an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved

   Broaderelectromagnet

   Part oftape recorder

Questions about magnetic head

What does magnetic head mean?

magnetic head means "an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved".

Is magnetic head a common word?

magnetic head 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.