ferrite
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See also: Ferrite
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
New Latin, from Latin ferrum (“iron”) + -ite.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ferrite (countable and uncountable, plural ferrites)
- The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled![1]:
- Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
- Any of a class of metal oxides which show ferrimagnetism; used in transformers, inductors, antennas, recording heads, microwave devices, motors and loudspeakers.
- 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
- The actual hardware is obsolete; for example, the memories are of the old ferrite core type.
- (inorganic chemistry) The anion FeO22-, and any of the salts (formally derived from the unknown ferrous acid) derived from it.
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Derived terms
Translations[edit]
allotrope of iron
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
ferrite m (plural ferrites)
Further reading[edit]
- “ferrite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
ferrite f (plural ferriti)
- ferrite (class of iron oxides)
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