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Meanings of magnetic variation in English

Portuguese
declinação magnética
Catalan
declinació magnètica
Wikidata

The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north.

        declinação magnética
        Usage of magnetic variation in English
        1
        It holds the magnetic variation steady during flight.
        Time After Time
        2
        Spanish navigators affirm that on these coasts the magnetic variation differs extremely from that observed at sea.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        3
        On these charts he set down lines connecting those localities at which the magnetic variation was identical.
        Great Astronomers
        4
        He took the "lay" of the place with a pocket-compass, allowing two seconds for magnetic variation.
        A Double Barrelled Detective Story
        5
        One chest contained a sextant, a dipping-needle, an apparatus to determine the magnetic variation, a few thermometers, and Saussure's hygrometer.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        6
        We have the longitude and the latitude, corrected for magnetic variation, and this gives us the exact location of the tragedy.
        A Double Barrelled Detective Story
        7
        Dovers made a long series of observations for longitude, latitude and magnetic variation, while Hoadley examined the rocks and took photographs.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        8
        By an azimuth of the sun's centre taken this morning, the magnetic variation was observed to be about 20 minutes west.
        Journals of Australian Explorations
        9
        Navigators can cope with this because it's now easy to update the information about changes in the local magnetic variation from true North.
        News.com.au
        10
        He had also traveled far and wide to measure magnetic variation, so he was well versed in longitude lore-andpersonally immersed in the quest.
        The illustrated longitude: the true story of a lone genius who s...
        11
        Moreover, the magnetic variation is 18 degrees 3 degrees at Talcahuano April 23rd, the true meridian bearing to the right of the magnetic.
        Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
        12
        Let the magnetic variation be N. 15° W., and the observed bearings A 290, B 320, then the position stands as in Fig.
        The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
        13
        Extensive notes and observations by Newton on astronomy and magnetic variations on pp.
        Wired
        14
        Magnetic variation 7 degrees 8 minutes 15 seconds East.
        Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
        15
        38, or, correcting for magnetic variation, as in Fig.
        The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns
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        Translations for magnetic variation
        Magnetic variation through the time