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magnetarium|mægnɪˈtɛərɪəm| [quasi-Latin, f. magnet + -arium.] An instrument for the illustration of the phenomena of the earth's magnetism.
1894H. Wilde in Proc. Roy. Soc. LV. 210 By means of some electro-mechanism, new to experimental science, which [in a paper read in June 1890] I termed a magnetarium, the period of backward rotation [etc.]. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 463/1 Wilde had succeeded in reproducing some of the most conspicuous features of the earth's magnetization by a contrivance called a magnetarium. |