magnetic inclination

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   (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

   Synonymsdipangle of dipmagnetic dipinclination

   Broaderangle

   physics

Questions about magnetic inclination

What does magnetic inclination mean?

magnetic inclination means "(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon".

What is another word for magnetic inclination?

Close synonyms include dip, angle of dip, magnetic dip, inclination. 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 inclination a common word?

magnetic inclination 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.