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Magnetic meridian   /mægnˈɛtɪk mərˈɪdiən/   Listen
Magnetic meridian

noun
1.
An imaginary line passing through both magnetic poles of the Earth.





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"Magnetic meridian" Quotes from Famous Books



... on this wise: The Earth's magnetic force, which is the active agent in maintaining the compass-needle in the magnetic meridian** at any particular spot, acts, not as is popularly supposed, in a horizontal plane, but at a certain angle of inclination with the Earth's surface. The nearer the magnetic poles the more nearly vertical does the ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson


Words linked to "Magnetic meridian" :   meridian, line of longitude


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