Noun: ferrite
| Singular | ferrite |
| Plural | ferrites |
Sample Sentences
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ferrite transition zone
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Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […] [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!:]
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ferrite magnets
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The actual hardware is obsolete; for example, the memories are of the old ferrite core type. [1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:]
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sodium ferrite
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calcium ferrite
Nouns inflected like ferrite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin, from Latin ferrum (“iron”) + -ite. See: Latin Nouns '
ferrum'.
Verbs referencing "ferrite"
Finnish Nouns
ferriitti.