Sentence examples for retentivity from inspiring English sources

One hypothesis advanced to account for the greater retentivity of psychomotor behaviour, as compared to that of newly acquired verbal behaviour, is that nonverbal actions are more often overlearned and are less susceptible to proactive interference (i.e., competition arising from things learned in the past).

A good permanent magnet must have a large spontaneous magnetization in zero field (i.e., a high retentivity) and a high coercive force to prevent its being easily demagnetized by an external field.

In fact, when H has decreased to zero, B still has a positive value called the remanence, residual induction, or retentivity, which has a high value for permanent magnets.