magnetic variation
Britishnoun
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One set of scans, which uses magnetic variations, showed the 5 hectare site was surrounded by ditches.
From BBC
A magnetic variation shift greater than 3 degrees prompts the administration to make changes to published airport approaches, and to advise airports to make changes on their property.
From Washington Times
Every five years, the Federal Aviation Administration tests magnetic variation and assigns the values that’ll be used in designating runways.
From Seattle Times
All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.
From Literature
Among them is the failure to allow for magnetic variation - causing misreadings in Columbus' compasses - and the apparent impossibility of various moorings.
From BBC
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