Synonyms for magnetic needle


Grammar : Noun


Définition of magnetic needle

  • noun direction finder
Example sentences :
  • This point is noted for the singular agitation of the magnetic needle.
  • Extract from : « Old Mackinaw » by W. P. Strickland.
  • It is added, that the girl produced no effect on the magnetic needle.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various
  • Why, we enquire, does the magnetic needle set north and south?
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • The length of the magnetic needle is 12 inches, and its axis is made of gold and copper.
  • Extract from : « Lost Diaries » by Maurice Baring
  • It consists of a magnetic needle mounted at the center of a coil of wire.
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • The direction taken by a magnetic needle is parallel to the magnetic meridian.
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • Magnetic needle tells you what's going on in the sun, the stars.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • So did the discovery of the magnetic needle and the new world.
  • Extract from : « Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland » by Henry B. Stanton
  • It is, or seems to be, a consciousness of direction that is as unerring as the magnetic needle.
  • Extract from : « Ways of Nature » by John Burroughs
  • Inclination of magnetic needle probably connected with, II, 19.
  • Extract from : « Farthest North » by Fridtjof Nansen

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