magnetic | meaning of magnetic in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Electricity, Daily life, Technology, Physicsmagneticmag‧net‧ic /mæɡˈnetɪk/ ●●○ adjective    1 HPEconcerning or produced by magnetism  magnetic forces2 DThaving the power of a magnet or behaving like a magnet  a magnetic bulletin board3 → magnetic personality/charm etc —magnetically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpusmagnetic• The firm designs and sells magnetic and optical sensors for use on factory production lines.• a magnetic bulletin board• Turns on to headings will be made at the standard rate, but using the stop-watch, not magnetic compass.• Two people standing at distant points on the globe would have completely different ideas about where the magnetic north pole lay.• A compass needle points to the magnetic north pole.