HYSTERESIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("hysteresis" is a kind of...):

physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

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