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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having no inclination.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. physics Without inclination or dipping.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Physics.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said of the imaginary line near the earth's equator on which the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἀκλινής (aklinēs, "unswerving"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + κλίνω (klinō, "bend") (Wiktionary)

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  • “However, one incident of nearly unimaginable violence for which Bush and Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld share immediate and direct responsibilityoccurred earlier today in Iraq when a US soldier opened fire on his comrades killing five of them as he waited in aclinic at Camp Liberty outside Baghdad.”

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  • “- shaped like cluster of grapes; full of seeds, like a grape. adj. - containing small seeds or drupes. aclinic adj. - applied to line passing through all points where there is no magnetic inclination. aclinic line, magnetic equator. aconite”

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  • jmjarmstrong JM is going straight to an aclinic clinic to investigate this lack of attraction. Mar 25, 2010

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