dip circle

1. 1.

   a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane)

   Synonymsinclinometer

   Broadermeasuring instrument

   airplane

Questions about dip circle

What does dip circle mean?

dip circle means "a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane)".

What is another word for dip circle?

Close synonyms include inclinometer. 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 dip circle a common word?

dip circle 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.