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Definition of Magnetic variation
1. Noun. The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north.
Definition of Magnetic variation
1. Noun. (context: military nautical navigation) In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north. ¹
2. Noun. (cartography) In cartography, the annual change in direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Variation
Literary usage of Magnetic variation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"This particular variation is termed here the "solar-eclipse magnetic variation."
(6) The range of the solar-eclipse magnetic variation, according to the ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1897)
"On the Lunar Diurnal magnetic variation at Toronto. ... On the Solar Magnetic
Variation of the Magnetic Declination at Pékin,' 1860. 29. ..."
3. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1854)
"CHAPTER V. magnetic variation. — Cabot's early Observations. — Explains his Theory
in Public to the King. — Bad Condition of English Commerce. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"(c) The general character of the system causing the solar-eclipse magnetic
variation is the reverse of that causing the daylight portion of the ..."
5. List and Catalogue of the Publications Issued by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic by Edward Lawver Burchard (1902)
"Investigation of the solar diurnal variation in the magnetic variation, and its
annual inequality. Rept. 1860, app. 23,* pp. 293-312. Part III. ..."
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