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Definition of Magnetic needle
1. Noun. A slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction; used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Needle
Literary usage of Magnetic needle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"The profound researches of Oersted in 1819 in relation to the influence of a
current of electricity upon the magnetic needle is of great importance and may ..."
2. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1836)
"This property of the magnetic needle was discovered by a compass maker, who, ...
The dip of the magnetic needle is measured',bj a graduated circle, ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1852)
"VARIATION OF THE magnetic needle. Something like ten or twelve years since I ...
The magnetic needle affects the situation of being in direction from south ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The deflection of the magnetic needle can therefore reveal the existence of an
electric current in a neighbouring circuit, and this fact was soon utilized ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"On a magnetic map lines are drawn which show the direction of the magnetic needle
at every point of the Earth's surface. These lines, which are called ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"12) be a magnet placed in the magnetic meridian, ris a small magnetic needle in
the same horizontal plane, with its centre in the line bisecting NS at right ..."
7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"The centre of gravity of the magnetic needle, although moveable, remained always
at reft while placed upon the magnetic meridian. ..."
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