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单词 magnetic ray
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magnetic ray
a. The invisible means by which magnetic influence is transmitted from a magnetic object to the surrounding space (later identified with a line of magnetic force); chiefly in magnetic ray (also, in later use, figurative and poetic). Obsolete.
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1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xvi. 388 Nor that some of those Magnetick Rayes, which pass through the pores of the first Iron, should invade a second Iron posited beyond it.
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii.xvi. 390 Hence is it warrantable for us to conceive, that the species diffused from the Loadstone to the Iron, and from the Iron to the Loadstone, are transmitted by way of Radiation, and that every Ray is Tense and Direct in its progress through the intermediate space, like a small thread or wire extended.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 159 If the Magnetick rayes proceeded intrinsecally from the Stone.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 13 The mighty Magnet..Its active Rays ejaculated thence, Irradiate all the wide Circumference.
1766 A. Walker Anal. Course Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. 45 On this strew a few steel filings, and the magnetic rays will appear in many beautiful curves.
1792 H. Brooke Poet. Wks. (ed. 3) II. 59 Winding to the sun's magnetic ray, The solar plants adore the lord of day.
1854 R. Montgomery Poet. Wks. 298 Then saw within their mutual eyes Magnetic rays of soul arise.
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