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Having a magnetic response that tends to align with an applied field without ordinary permanent magnetic ordering.
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- paramagnetic material
- paramagnetic response
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The paramagnetic sample moved toward the stronger field.
Cooling changed the measured paramagnetic response of the material.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Relational technical adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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