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remanence en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɹɛmənəns/

Etymology

From remanent (“that which remains”) + -ence.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The magnetization left behind in a medium after an external magnetic field is removed.
  2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
    • remanence in their flesh 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
    • Neither St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will. c. 1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [no title], notes written in a copy of Taylor, Jeremy. Unum Necessarium; or the Doctrine and Practice of Repentance, 1655; republished as “Notes on Jeremy Taylor”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, Coleridge's Literary Remains, volume 3, 1838:

Forms

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Deriveds

thermoremanence

Synonyms

remanency (continuance, permanence)

Translations (2)

tr artık mıknatıslanma (left-behind magnetization in a medium) · vi từ dư (left-behind magnetization in a medium)