magnetic equator

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

   Synonymsaclinic line

   Broaderline

Questions about magnetic equator

What does magnetic equator mean?

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

What is another word for magnetic equator?

Close synonyms include aclinic line. 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 magnetic equator a common word?

magnetic equator 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.