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horseshoe magnet

noun

  1. a horseshoe-shaped permanent magnet.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of horseshoe magnet1

First recorded in 1775–85
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The process had made flexible, millimeter-wide permanent magnets, much like a classic bar or horseshoe magnet.

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The classic red-and-white horseshoe magnet may have worked for Wile E. Coyote, but it can be a little inflexible.

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An enormous horseshoe magnet perches atop a 17-inch black-and-white television.

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Then she produced a bag of marbles, a slingshot, a spool of clear fishing twine, one pencil and one eraser, a kaleidoscope, and a horseshoe magnet, which she yanked with some effort from the metal bucket.

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In a 2013 speech at a science center in Pittsburgh, he recalled that, at the age of 5 or 6, his father gave him a horseshoe magnet.

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