- a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- a lodestone.
- a thing or person that attracts: The park was a magnet for pickpockets and muggers.
- variant of magneto- before some vowels: magneton.
- a body that can attract certain substances, such as iron or steel, as a result of a magnetic field; a piece of ferromagnetic substance
- a person or thing that exerts a great attraction
