Meaning & use
Demagnetize
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To remove or reduce the magnetic properties of an object.
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Strong impacts can demagnetize a compass needle over time.
The technician used a coil to demagnetize the old cassette tape heads.
A note on using this word
In electronics, this process is often called "degaussing," a near-synonym derived from the unit of magnetic flux density, the gauss.
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degauss
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Words with an opposite meaning
magnetize
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