Dip of the needle
| the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; - called also inclination. |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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