ferroic transition

https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.F02348
A general term for ferroelastic, ferroelectric, antiferroelectric, ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic transitions in which a suitable driving force switches a ferroic crystal from one orientation state, or domain state, to another.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 577. (Definitions of terms relating to phase transitions of the solid state (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)) on page 582 [Terms] [Paper]