Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hysteresis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hysteresis \Hys`te*re"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? to be behind, to
lag.] (Physics)
A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces
acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or
internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a
condition previously induced, observed in magnetism,
thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hysteresis
n : the lagging of an effect behind its cause; especially the
phenomenon in which the magnetic induction of a
ferromagnetic material lags behind the changing magnetic
field
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