magnetic attraction
Iron draws near
Magnetic attraction is the force that draws certain materials toward magnets or toward each other.
Iron filings exhibit magnetic attraction when scattered near a magnet.
The term extends to any powerful pull between people or things: There was an undeniable magnetic attraction between them from the moment they met.
The figurative sense emphasizes chemistry or irresistible draw rather than choice.
- pullForce toward oneself
- love at first sightImmediate romantic attraction to stranger
- polarityState of opposing forces
- ironElement twenty-six
- lodestoneNaturally magnetic mineral
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- forcesgravity, force, thrust, drag, friction
- magnetslodestones, electromagnets, lodestone, magnetite, ferromagnet
- magnetismferromagnetism, electromagnets, demagnetize, poles, flux
- Maglevmaglev, maglev train, EMS, guideway, linear motor
magnetic attractionrepulsion
Disgust or pushing-away force
aversion · revulsion · antipathy · indifference · repulsiveness
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