attrahent

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Adjective

HYPHEN

at=tra=hent

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CIDE DICTIONARY

attrahent, a. [L. attrahens, p. pr. of attrahere. See Attract, v. t.].

Attracting; drawing; attractive. [1913 Webster]

attrahent, n.

That which attracts, as a magnet. [1913 Webster]
"The motion of the steel to its attrahent" [1913 Webster]
A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism. [1913 Webster]

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attrahent

Attraction

N attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, drawing to, pulling towards, adduction, electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static cling, magnetism, magnetic attraction, gravity, attraction of gravitation, lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar, magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite, electromagnet, magnetic coil, voice coil, magnetic dipole, motor coil, rotor, stator, electrical charge, positive charge, negative charge, magnetic pole, north pole, south pole, magnetic monopole, attracting, attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive, centrifugal, ubi mel ibi apes.