| magnet | a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction |
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| magnet | the direction in which a compass needle points |
| magnet | one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated |
| magnet | either of two points where the lines of force of the Earth's magnetic field are vertical |
| magnet | a brownish iron sulfide mineral FeS having weak magnetic properties |
| magnet | recorder consisting of equipment for making records on magnetic media |
| magnet | resonance of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei to radiation frequencies as a result of space quantization in a magnetic field |
| magnet | the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images |
| magnet | a sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field |
| magnet | memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide |
| magnet | the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north |
| magnet | as if by magnetism |