remanence
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See also: rémanence
English
Etymology
From remanent (“that which remains”) + -ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
remanence (countable and uncountable, plural remanences)
- (physics) The magnetization left behind in a medium after an external magnetic field is removed.
- (archaic) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
- remanence in their flesh
- c. 1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, , notes written in a copy of Taylor, Jeremy. Unum Necessarium; or the Doctrine and Practice of Repentance, 1655; republished as “Notes on Jeremy Taylor”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, Coleridge's Literary Remains, volume 3, 1838:
- Neither St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will.
Synonyms
- (continuance, permanence): remanency; see also Thesaurus:permanence