northness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
northness (usually uncountable, plural northnesses)
- A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
- 1852, Michael Faraday, On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force:
- an absolute northness or southness
References[edit]
“northness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.