Synonyms for magnetic north
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of magnetic north
- noun compass point
- Your compass, as just explained, points to the magnetic north.
- Extract from : « Touring Afoot » by Claude Powell Fordyce
- His gaze shivered and fixed itself on the Master's, as in a compass-box you may see the needle tremble to magnetic north.
- Extract from : « Brother Copas » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- The outer dial rotated as soon as the cover lock was released and came to a stop pointing to magnetic north.
- Extract from : « The Thirst Quenchers » by Rick Raphael
- (Egede Land), which lies to the north-west (to the north there is no land, unless the magnetic north is meant).
- Extract from : « In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) » by Fridtjof Nansen
- It must be remembered that in one case I speak of the true north, and in the other of the magnetic north.
- Extract from : « Spinning Tops » by John Perry
- The whole arises from the system adopted of laying down the boundaries by the magnetic north instead of by the true.
- Extract from : « Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 » by John Lort Stokes
- If to the magnetic North the needle will have but one barb away from the true North.
- Extract from : « Military Instructors Manual » by James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
- Her perception of the invisible was as sensitive as the needle of a compass to the thrill of the magnetic north.
- Extract from : « The Heather-Moon » by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
- The main building is built in the form of a cross, with its chief front to the magnetic north.
- Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. » by Various
- The variation from the magnetic north is shown on the ground plan, which was made in December, 1890.
- Extract from : « Casa Grande Ruin » by Cosmos Mindeleff
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