magnetic dip
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Heading data is referenced to true north, is unaffected by magnetic dip and acceleration errors and is immune to errors caused by onboard magnetic influences.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the plate was in the magnetic meridian, or in any other plane coinciding with the magnetic dip, then its rotation produced no effect upon the galvanometer.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
This should, of course, be the case; for when the wire is cutting the magnetic dip in a certain direction, an electric current also in a certain direction should be induced in it.
From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
The magnetic dip is always measured in this work, according to the centesimal division, if the contrary be not expressly mentioned.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
“When the plate was in the magnetic meridian, or in any other plane coinciding with the magnetic dip, then its rotation produced no effect upon the galvanometer.”
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles
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