Relating to or exhibiting halisteresis; showing lag in magnetic or electric response.
From 'halisteresis' + '-ic' (adjective suffix). A specialized physics term from 19th-century electromagnetics research.
Materials with halisteretic properties are actually useful—transformers and electromagnets depend on this lag to function, so 'stubborn' material behavior is exactly what engineers want!
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