HYSTERESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hysteresis mean? 

• HYSTERESIS (noun)
  The noun HYSTERESIS has 1 sense:

1. the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field

  Familiarity information: HYSTERESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYSTERESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("hysteresis" is a kind of...):

physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

 Context examples 

This independent tunability confers shape memories on the POPs via a phenomenon known as hysteresis, allowing them to return to their original shape after a temperature cue.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)