Magnetic Needle

  

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Magnetic Needle

Definition: Magnetic Needle

Magnetic Needle

Noun

1. A slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction; used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Magnetic Needle

English words defined with "magnetic needle": Aclinic, aclinic line, Agonic line, angle of dip, Azimuth compassDeclination compass, Declination of the compass, Deviation of the compass, dip, Dip of the needleinclination, Isogonic linesmagnetic, magnetic compass, magnetic dip, magnetic equator, magnetic inclination, magnetic meridian, MagneticalNeedle telegraph, NorthnessSouthnesstorsion balanceUnifilar magnetometerVariation of the needle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "magnetic needle": BEARING-RING ASSEMBLERcompass deflectiondip compass, dip needleHotchkiss superdiploose-needle traversingMagnetic polarityneedle instrumentphotographic borehole survey, pocket compassSwedish mining compassunit assembler. (references)

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Modern Translations: Magnetic Needle

Language Translations for "magnetic needle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إبرة مغنطيسية. (various references)

   

Danish

  

magnetnål (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

magneetnaald (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

magneettineula (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

French

  

aiguille aimantée (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

German

  

Ablenkungsmagnet (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαγνητική βελόνη (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mágnestű. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

磁針 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じし" (attendant, benevolence, by oneself, core, courtier, earthquake, mercy, personally, self-confidence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agneticmay eedlenay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

agulha magnética (deflecting magnet, dip-needle, dipping-needle, needle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

магнитная стрелка (dip-needle, dipping-needle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

magnetna igla (dip-needle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aguja magnética (deflecting magnet, dipping-needle), aguja imantada (deflecting magnet). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pusula ibresi (compass needle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Magnetic Needle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-t"

-4 letters: anteceding, emendating, enlacement, inelegance.

-5 letters: alignment, alimented, alinement, celandine, cementing, clientage, decanting, decennial, delegatee, delineate, demeaning, demential, dementing, eglantine, enameling, entangled, geminated, genetical, gentleman, gentlemen, inclement, inelegant, lamenting, lineament, madeleine, mendicant, meningeal, neglected, telegenic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Magnetic Needle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 67 6E 65 74 69 63      4E 65 65 64 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01001110 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#103 &#110 &#101 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#78 &#101 &#101 &#100 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0067 006E 0065 0074 0069 0063      004E 0065 0065 0064 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47677380718675692487171707871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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