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Definition of Isogone
1. Noun. An imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same.
Definition of Isogone
1. a line on a map used to show characteristics of the earth's magnetic field [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Isogone
Literary usage of Isogone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"Each isogone or line of equal declination passes through localities at which the
declination liad the value as marked in 1885. This figure is also reduced ..."
2. An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology by Parker Cleaveland (1816)
"Thus a crystal may be called isogone (equality of angles), when the faces, which
exist on certain parts, differently situated, form among themselves equal ..."
3. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1885)
"In the United States the isogone of 20 degrees west declination passes through
the vicinity of the northeast corner of Maine this year, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"But that seems hardly a sufficient reason for making the isogone of the form
represented ; for it is well known that the ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"make the following remarks : A kind of break of the isogone occurs between Sado
and Sendai. This must be of special interest, as a geological dislocation ..."
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