aclinic line

1. 1.

   an imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip

   Synonymsmagnetic equator

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Questions about aclinic line

What does aclinic line mean?

aclinic line means "an imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic needle has no dip".

What is another word for aclinic line?

Close synonyms include magnetic equator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aclinic line a common word?

aclinic line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.