CURIE POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Curie point mean? 

• CURIE POINT (noun)
  The noun CURIE POINT has 1 sense:

1. the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic

  Familiarity information: CURIE POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURIE POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

Curie point; Curie temperature

Hypernyms ("Curie point" is a kind of...):

temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity))