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