MAGNETIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetized mean? 

• MAGNETIZED (adjective)
  The adjective MAGNETIZED has 1 sense:

1. having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel

  Familiarity information: MAGNETIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel

Synonyms:

magnetic; magnetised; magnetized

Context example:

the hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material

Similar:

attractable (capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet)

 Context examples 

However, magnetized rocks near the lunar surface do create small, localized spots of magnetic field that extend anywhere from hundreds of yards to hundreds of miles.

(NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn', NASA)

Metal molecules within the contrast solution are magnetized during the MRI process and enhance the image wherever the molecules of solution bind with the targeted protein.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)

People are attracted to the warmth and glow of the fire (you), and they are magnetized to it like moths to a flame.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A pulsar is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that sweeps regular pulses of radiation in two symmetrical beams across the cosmos.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

The observations made by Juno's magnetometers will also add to our understanding of Earth's dynamo, the source of our planet's magnetic field, which lies deep beneath a magnetized layer of rocks and iron.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

Then, they inserted the wire — which is as long as a pinky finger and as thick as a paper clip — into a vein near the pig's ear, according to the study. (This vein in pigs is similar to the veins in a human's arm.) When the magnetized tumor cells floated past the wire, they stuck to it.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here on Earth, we're largely protected from the damaging effects of the solar wind: Because the solar wind is magnetized, Earth's natural magnetic field deflects the solar wind particles around our planet so that only a small fraction of them reach our planet's atmosphere.

(NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn', NASA)

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine created a magnetic wire that could, in theory, be inserted into a person's vein, where it could snatch up tumor cells that had been magnetized by special nanoparticles.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)