DEMAGNETIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demagnetization mean? 

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

1. the process of removing magnetization

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMAGNETIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of removing magnetization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

demagnetisation; demagnetization

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

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "demagnetization"):

degaussing (the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field)

Derivation:

demagnetize (make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of))