magnetic storm

1. 1.

   a sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field; caused by emission of particles from the sun

   Broaderperturbation

Questions about magnetic storm

What does magnetic storm mean?

magnetic storm means "a sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field; caused by emission of particles from the sun".

Is magnetic storm a common word?

magnetic storm 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.