moment of a magnet

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmagnetic moment

   Broadertorsion

Questions about moment of a magnet

What does moment of a magnet mean?

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

What is another word for moment of a magnet?

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

moment of a magnet 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.