The point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downwards.
The direction in which a compass needle points.
1I set it up and snapped it to mark out magnetic north.
2Her fixed point, her magnetic north-butnow everything was being moved.
3When transferring from map to field, rotate the compass housing toward magnetic north.
4Keep in mind that magnetic north changes slightly each year.
5The Sun switches its polarity, its magnetic north and south, once every 11 years.
6Even the compass needle doesn't point the true north, but only the magnetic north.
7Notice that the map below shows magnetic north, true north (T.N.
8Note.-Inthe vicinity of London true north is 15 degrees east of the magnetic north.
9The compass needle points to the magnetic north pole.
10I had the two angles measured against magnetic north.
11The garden is the magnetic north of this kitchen.
12It's on the sea bottom fifty fathoms down, five miles magnetic north-north-east from Cape Farnell!
13The difference between the map's grid north and magnetic north is called the angle of declination.
14If each sister had been a point of the compass, she had been their magnetic north.
15My brother is magnetic north for Catholic schoolgirls.
16At present, magnetic north lies near Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, but it won't stay there.
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Translations for magnetic north
Magnetic north per variant geogràfica