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magnetician|mægnɪˈtɪʃən| [f. magnetic + -ian.] One skilled in magnetism; a magnetist.
1838Ann. Electr. Magn. & Chem. II. 53 Had Mr. Clarke, the ‘magnetician’, known that fact, he might have saved himself the trouble. 1846C. Fox Jrnl. 13 Oct. (1972) 168 Mineral veins, however, a quite different case; infinite scope therein for Papa and all Magneticians. 1854Pereira's Polarized Light (ed. 2) 65 The electrician and the magnetician have assumed, respectively, an electric and a magnetic fluid. 1897Proc. R. Soc. LX. p. x, His first paper on that subject..was completely overlooked by magneticians. 1939Geogr. Jrnl. XCIII. 157 Gilbert the magnetician. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. IV. 20/1 One of these [components], called variation by the navigator and magnetic declination by the magnetician, is the angle between magnetic and geographic meridians. 1970Nature 29 Aug. 982/2 He found that magneticians were far readier to collect than to interpret data, and set himself to analyse geomagnetic variations. |