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loadstone
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n. Variant of lodestone. |
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| lode·stone also load·stone
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n.
[Middle English lode, way; see lode + stone (from its use by sailors to show the way).] |
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| a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically [syn: lodestone] |
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| lodestone also loadstone
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A piece of the mineral magnetite that acts like a magnet. |
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Loadstone
Load"stone`\, Lodestone \Lode"stone\, n. [Load, lode + stone.] (Min.) A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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