magnetic domain

noun

1. a portion of a ferromagnetic material where the magnetic moments are aligned with one another because of interactions between molecules or atoms.

Word History and Origins

Origin of magnetic domain¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

"What happens when you hit a magnetic domain with very short pulses of laser light?"

From Science Daily

To lower the energy of the system, one of the moments must be switched, or a new magnetic domain must be generated.

From Nature

The odd thing is that the heat pulse has no direction to tell a tiny magnetic domain which way to point.

From Science Magazine

One possibility is to heat up the magnetic domain while applying the magnetic field, making the bit easier to flip.

From Science Magazine

So long as electricity was studied in its condition at rest on charged conductors, as in the old science of electrostatics or frictional electricity, it possessed no magnetic properties whatever, nor did it encroach on the magnetic domain: only vague similarities in the phenomena of attraction and repulsion aroused attention.

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