magnetic moment

1. 1.

   the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field

   Synonymsmoment of a magnet

   Broadertorsion

Questions about magnetic moment

What does magnetic moment mean?

magnetic moment means "the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field".

What is another word for magnetic moment?

Close synonyms include moment of a magnet. 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 moment a common word?

magnetic moment 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.