Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The magnetic induction that remains in a material after removal of the magnetizing field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
- noun That which remains; a residuum.
- noun Residual magnetism; the flux density remaining in a magnetic circuit after the magnetizing force has ceased.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics The magnetization left behind in a medium after an external magnetic field is removed.
- noun archaic The state of being
remanent ;continuance ;permanence .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I do not wish to call your attention here to the disproportion of the sentence but to its remanence and to the astonishment if not downright indignation this situation provokes in all who cherish the United States because they cherish liberty.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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I do not wish to call your attention here to the disproportion of the sentence but to its remanence and to the astonishment if not downright indignation this situation provokes in all who cherish the United States because they cherish liberty.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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On a hot summer day I came looking for water in a place where no water exists, the way dowsers do when they search for trapped, underground places, seeking out the ghost of water, its remanence.
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It is possible to lose the permanent magnetic field (remanence of the iron), which disables the machine from self-starting.
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St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Raphaël Zarka believes that the world is inhabited by phantoms, reoccurring forms and remanence.
we make money not art Regine 2010
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Raphaël Zarka believes that the world is inhabited by phantoms, reoccurring forms and remanence.
we make money not art Regine 2010
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The RCMP's technical security branch found that DSX left traces of sensitive data on newer drives that can be read by modern devices, a sticky problem known as "data remanence."
680news.com 2009
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According to Prophecy the Messiah which the Goyim worship will reveil himself as the Anti-Christ plunging the remanence of the free world into a Satanic totalitarian one world government headed by an unaccountable extension of the UN bringing depths of exploitation and inhumane barbarity upon mankind for a millennium.
MetaFilter Projects 2008
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According to Prophecy the Messiah which the Goyim worship will reveil himself as the Anti-Christ plunging the remanence of the free world into a Satanic totalitarian one world government headed by an unaccountable extension of the UN bringing depths of exploitation and inhumane barbarity upon mankind for a millennium.
MetaFilter Projects 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word remanence
"The highbrow or hurried reader will be content with knowing that her "As White As..." was said to have caught the very marrow of the icy city. But that is of little use to really measure the remanence of her name to the olde-New."
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat, p 103
July 22, 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word remanence
"The wishfilm we leave on our walks glistens on the city's hard surfaces like the luminous imprint of fish scales left on a butcher's block hours after the fish was caught, cut, and cooked—outside of time. It still glistens, still pulsates, reaching out to strangers, calling out to them, sometimes long after we're gone. The remanence of our presence, our lingering afterimage on this city—the best of us."
Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman, p 155 of the FSG hardcover
July 18, 2012
bilby commented on the word remanence
Do you think wishfilm is just a custom madeupical?
July 19, 2012