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May 27, 2012
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mag•ne•to



Pronunciation: (mag-nē'tō), [key]
—n.,
—pl. -tos. Elect.
a small electric generator with an armature that rotates in a magnetic field provided by permanent magnets, as a generator supplying ignition current for certain types of internal combustion engines or a hand-operated generator for telephone signaling. Also called magne'toelec'tric gen'erator, magnetogenerator.

magneto-




a combining form representing magnetic or magnetism in compound words: magnetochemistry. Also, esp. before a vowel,magnet-.

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magnetizemagnetocaloric effect
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