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Definition of Negative magnetic pole
1. Noun. The pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Negative Magnetic Pole
Literary usage of Negative magnetic pole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electrical Engineering: The Theory and Characteristics of Electrical by Clarence Victor Christie (1917)
"Similarly a negative magnetic pole or south pole appears where ... positive magnetic
pole or a north pole and S is a negative magnetic pole or a south pole. ..."
2. Principles of Electrical Engineering by Harold Pender (1911)
"... at the north pointing end of a magnet and the expression " south (or negative)
magnetic pole " to signify this something at the south pointing end. ..."
3. Popular Astronomy by Carleton College Goodsell Observatory, Minn.) Carleton College (Northfield, Goodsell Observatory (1908)
"... these wandering corpuscles or "ions" —as we may call them—can find lodgment
is at the other end of the bar which constitutes the negative magnetic pole, ..."
4. An Elementary Course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: For the Use of by Thomas Turner Tate (1857)
"As like poles attract, and unlike poles repel each other, it follows that the
magnetic pole of the earth lging towards the north is a negative magnetic pole ..."
5. Appletons' School Physics: Embracing the Results of the Most Recent by John Duncan Quackenbos (1891)
"A negative magnetic pole, however, must be in the neighborhood of the geographical
north pole in order to attract the + pole of the needle. ..."
6. A Natural Philosophy: Embracing the Most Recent Discoveries in the Various by George Payn Quackenbos (1872)
"That point of the earth which attracts the north or positive pole of the needle,
must be its south or negative magnetic pole. It lies near Hudson's ..."