magnetic monopole

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   a hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual two

   Broaderparticle

Questions about magnetic monopole

What does magnetic monopole mean?

magnetic monopole means "a hypothetical particle with a single magnetic pole instead of the usual two".

Is magnetic monopole a common word?

magnetic monopole 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.