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Definition of Magnetic meridian
1. Noun. An imaginary line passing through both magnetic poles of the Earth.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Meridian
Literary usage of Magnetic meridian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Azimuths were also measured at Jan Mayen for 338 auroral bands, the mean being
22-0° W., or 7-9° to the east of the magnetic meridian. ..."
2. Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied: For the Use of by Adolphe Ganot (1879)
"In general the magnetic meridian does not coincide with the geographical meridian,
and the angle which the magnetic makes with the geographical meridian, ..."
3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"If the magnetic meridian coincided with the geographical, the magnetic equator
would coincide with the earth's equator ; but such is not the fact. ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"The magnetic meridian is the direction indicated by the magnetic needle. The true
meridian is a true north and south line, which, if produced, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1836)
"... passing through them is the first magnetic meridian. QFR is the magnetic
equator cutting the geographical equator MN in E, the pole of the polar colure; ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"If the vertical plane in which the needle moves is the magnetic meridian of the
... hen the plane of the needle is at right angles to the magnetic meridian, ..."
7. A Treatise on Electricity in Theory and Practice by Auguste de La Rive, Charles Vincent Walker (1853)
"Laws of the movement of the needle when it is set in motion out of the magnetic
meridian. Let ab (Fig. 5.) be the needle, and MR the resultant of the ..."
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