North Pole

North Pole

a. The northern end of the earth's axis of rotation, a point in the Arctic Ocean.

b. The celestial zenith of this terrestrial point.

c. north pole The northern end of the axis of rotation of a planet or other celestial body.

2. north pole The north-seeking magnetic pole of a straight magnet.

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North Pole

1. (Physical Geography) the northernmost point on the earth's axis, at a latitude of 90°N

2. (Astronomy) astronomy Also called: north celestial pole the point of intersection of the earth's extended axis and the northern half of the celestial sphere, lying about 1° from Polaris

3. (General Physics) (usually not capitals) the pole of a freely suspended magnet, which is attracted to the earth's magnetic North Pole

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North′ Pole′

1. the end of the earth's axis of rotation, marking the northernmost point on earth.

2. the point at which the extended axis of the earth cuts the northern half of the celestial sphere, about 1° from the North Star; the north celestial pole.

3. (l.c.) See under magnetic pole (def. 1).

[1350–1400]

North Pole

North Pole

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The northern end of the Earth's axis of rotation, a point in the Arctic Ocean.

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North Pole - the northernmost point of the Earth's axis

Translations

الْقُطْبُ الْشِّمَالِيُّ

severní pól

Nordpolen

pohjoisnapa

Sjeverni pol

Északi-sark

Polo Nord

北極

북극

nordpolnordpolen

ขั้วโลกเหนือ

Kuzey Kutbu

Bắc Cực

北极

North Pole

n the North Pole → il Polo Nord

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

North Pole

→ الْقُطْبُ الْشِّمَالِيُّ severní pól Nordpolen Nordpol Βόρειος Πόλος Polo Norte pohjoisnapa pôle nord Sjeverni pol Polo Nord 北極 북극 Noordpool Nordpolen Biegun Północny Pólo Norte Северный полюс nordpolen ขั้วโลกเหนือ Kuzey Kutbu Bắc Cực 北极

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On the contrary, he is ungratefully disposed to regret the North Pole.

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AFTER a great expenditure of life and treasure a Daring Explorer had succeeded in reaching the North Pole, when he was approached by a Native Galeut who lived there.

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We may also notice that, on the lunar sphere, the south pole is much more continental than the north pole. On the latter, there is but one slight strip of land separated from other continents by vast seas.

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At last, one afternoon, she arrived very late, with her face so desperately pale and her eyes so desperately red, that Raoul resolved to go to all lengths, including that which he foreshadowed when he blurted out that he would not go on the North Pole expedition unless she first told him the secret of the man's voice.

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Russia seemed to me more remote than any other country-- farther away than China, almost as far as the North Pole. Of all the strange, uprooted people among the first settlers, those two men were the strangest and the most aloof.

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After drinking some hot coffee, like an Arctic explorer setting off on a sledge journey towards the North Pole, I would go ashore and roll shivering in a tramcar into the very heart of the town, past clean-faced houses, past thousands of brass knockers upon a thousand painted doors glimmering behind rows of trees of the pavement species, leafless, gaunt, seemingly dead for ever.

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No one can make an affidavit to the contrary, and therefore I still say nothing against the supposition: indeed, were geologists to assert that the whole continent of America had in like manner been formed by the simultaneous explosion of a train of Etnas laid under the water all the way from the North Pole to the parallel of Cape Horn, I am the last man in the world to contradict them.

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Thus it was that I went more slowly as we approached the barrier, for it was my intention to move cautiously by day over the ice-pack that I might discover, before I had run into a trap, if there really lay an inhabited country at the north pole, for there only could I imagine a spot where Matai Shang might feel secure from John Carter, Prince of Helium.

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This map reproduced with scrupulous fidelity the smallest details of the lunar surface which faces the earth; the mountains, valleys, craters, peaks, and ridges were all represented, with their exact dimensions, relative positions, and names; from the mountains Doerfel and Leibnitz on the eastern side of the disc, to the Mare frigoris of the North Pole.

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The Snow Queen has her summer-tent there; but her fixed abode is high up towards the North Pole, on the Island called Spitzbergen."

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I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.

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I place the transparent scale on this star-map, revolving the scale on the North Pole. On the scale I've worked out the circles of altitude and the lines of bearing.

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