Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Magneto-electric \Mag`net*o-e*lec"tric\, Magneto-electrical
\Mag`net*o-e*lec"tric*al\, a. (Physics)
   Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action
   of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.

   {Magneto-electric machine}, a form of dynamo-electric machine
      in which the field is maintained by permanent steel
      magnets instead of electro-magnets.