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Magnetic attraction

noun

Attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force. Synonyms: magnetic force, magnetism.

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"Magnetic attraction" Quotes from Famous Books

... that if the State went out, three hundred thousand volunteers were ready to march against her. I know little about Kendall—and the less the better. He was under General Jackson; but for him the Federal treasury seemed to have a magnetic attraction. ...

— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... with its alluring, velvet, white skin, her slightly full lips, all curved and red, and tempting, and anything but cold in shape, and the extraordinary magnetic attraction of her whole personality, made her a most dangerous thing; and then his thoughts turned to the vision of her hair undone that he had had on that first evening at Dover. He had said once to Francis Markrute, he remembered, that these great passions were "storybook stuff." Good God! Well, in those ...

— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn

... It is the magnetic attraction of the heart toward Truth and Virtue. The needle, imbued with this mystic property, and pointing unerringly to the north, carries the mariner safely over the trackless ocean, through storm and darkness, until his glad eyes behold the beneficent ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

Words linked to "Magnetic attraction" : attractive force, electromagnetism, diamagnetism, attractive, antiferromagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, magnetic force, magnetism, attraction