hysteresis (redirected from Hysteresis loss)

hysteresis /hys·te·re·sis/ (his?te-re´sis) [Gr.]

1. a time lag in the occurrence of two associated phenomena, as between cause and effect.

2. in cardiac pacemaker terminology, the number of pulses per minute below the programmed pacing rate that the heart must drop in order to cause initiation of pacing.

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hys·ter·e·sis (hst-rss)

n. pl. hys·ter·e·ses (-sz)

The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism of a body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.

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hyster·etic (-rtk) adj.

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hysteresis (histerē´sis),

n a physical phenomenon whereby a material such as a reversible hydrocolloid passes from a solid to a gel state at one temperature and a gel to a solid state at another.

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hysteresis

the failure of coincidence of two associated phenomena, such as that exhibited in the differing temperatures of gelation and of liquefaction of a reversible colloid.