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retentivity

[ ree-ten-tiv-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the power to retain; retentiveness.
  2. Electricity. remanence.
  3. Magnetism. the ability to retain magnetization after the removal of the magnetizing force.


retentivity

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noun

  1. the state or quality of being retentive
  2. physics another name for remanence
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of retentivity1

First recorded in 1880–85; retentive + -ity
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If required for permanent magnet making, it should have the highest possible coercivity combined with a high retentivity.

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The professor himself often comes to class armed with notes, but he persists in setting up, as a test of the growth of his students, their retentivity of the facts he gave from these very notes.

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Mars is an older world than ours, and although it receives only one-half as much heat from the sun yet it is almost of the same temperature, owing to a peculiar condition of the atmosphere which we would call "heat retentivity."

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