Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
| Domain | Definition |
Geological | Direction of magnetic poles (either normal or reversed) preserved in igneous rocks after they cool through their Curie temperatures. (references) |
Mining | The orientation of the constituent minerals within the rocks of the Earth's crust conforming to the Earth's magnetic field as it existed at the time the strata were deposited. See also:core orientation. (references) |
Space | Electric charges come in two varieties, denoted (+) and (-). Similarly , the poles of a magnet have different magnetic polarities, "north-seeking" (N) and "south-seeking" (S). If the magnet is freely suspended (e.g. a compass needle), the (N) end turns to face north, the (S) turns to face south. Like electric charges, poles of the same kind repel, of opposite kinds attract.The names are usually abbreviated to "north" and "south" poles, which occasionally causes confusion. If the magnetic properties of the Earth came from it being a giant magnet (rather than from electric currents in its interior) then the magnetic pole close to its northern geographic pole would in fact be an "S" pole or "south seeking" polesince it attracts the north-seeking pole of the compass needle!. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MAGNETIC POLARITY |
| English words defined with "MAGNETIC POLARITY": Electro-magnetic induction. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MAGNETIC POLARITY": core orientation ♦ geomagnetic polarity event ♦ polarity event ♦ sea-floor spreading. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-t-t-y" | |
-4 letters: ameliorating, anticipatory, antiparticle. | |
-5 letters: acetylating, acetylation, actinometry, altercating, altercation, amylopectin, anticipator, antipyretic, aromaticity, colinearity, coplanarity, crepitating, crepitation, emancipator, enigmatical, genotypical, impartation, impatiently, impetrating, impetration, importantly, imprecating, imprecation, integrality, interatomic, intricately, lacrimation, legitimator, maltreating, marginality, materiality, meliorating, metrication, migrational, mineralogic, panegyrical, patrimonial, percolating, pertinacity, petitionary, planimetric, potteringly, proclaiming, ratiocinate, rationality, reclamation, recompiling, replicating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 47 4E 45 54 49 43 50 4F 4C 41 52 49 54 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01000111 01001110 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010010 01001001 01010100 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A G N E T I C   P O L A R I T Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0047 004E 0045 0054 0049 0043 0050 004F 004C 0041 0052 0049 0054 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473541483954433725049463552435459 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Anagrams 3. Orthography 4. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
