Definition of Magnetic equator

1. Noun. An imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip.

Exact synonyms: Aclinic Line
Generic synonyms: Line

Definition of Magnetic equator

1. Noun. (military) A line drawn on a map or chart connecting all points at which the magnetic inclination (dip) is zero for a specified epoch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Equator

magnetic bubble memory
magnetic circuit
magnetic confinement
magnetic confinement fusion
magnetic core
magnetic declination
magnetic declinations
magnetic dip
magnetic dipole
magnetic dipole moment
magnetic disc
magnetic disk
magnetic energies
magnetic energy
magnetic equator (current term)
magnetic field
magnetic field gradient
magnetic field strength
magnetic fields
magnetic flux
magnetic flux densities
magnetic flux density
magnetic flux unit
magnetic force
magnetic head
magnetic implant
magnetic inclination
magnetic induction
magnetic inertia

Literary usage of Magnetic equator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"... clears away the film of gases from the plates, and so renders the polarization less than it should be. On <7ie Position of Ute magnetic equator ..."

2. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
"If the magnetic meridian coincided with the geographical, the magnetic equator would coincide with the earth's equator; but such is not the fact. ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1827)
"If a line be drawn through these points, it will be nearly the present situation of the magnetic equator, which is constantly altering, on account of the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It might be anticipated from such changes as these that the position of the magnetic equator would be found to be changing^ Nay, we can even guess in which ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"The farther we withdraw from the magnetic equator, the greater is the dip of the north end of the needle in the northern hemisphere, and of its south end in ..."

6. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1824)
"The magnetic equator descends to the southward of the terrestrial equator in the ... Thus, a northern hemisphere projected upon the magnetic equator, ..."

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