Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the same magnetic inclination or dip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of equal inclination: applied in geology to strata which incline or dip in the same direction. See
monoclinal . - noun Same as
isocline . - noun Also
isoclinic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or indicating, equality of inclination or dip; having equal inclination or dip.
- adjective (Magnetism) lines on the earth's surface connecting places at which a dipping needle indicates the same inclination or dip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
equal inclination ordip . - noun A
line connecting places of equal inclination or dip.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an isogram connecting points of equal magnetic inclination
- adjective having equal magnetic inclinations
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Examples
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As he fell into the same error with Gilbert, of presuming that the isoclinal lines coincided with the geographical parallel circles, and that the magnetic and geographical equators were identical, he did not perceive that the proposed method had only a local and very limited application.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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He isoclinal to er alexic solomonic phon at unblushingly methotrexate, and he puts that whippersnapper to turtledove in his sibilation.
Rational Review 2009
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In contrast to Fst, the G 'st contours are roughly isoclinal to the contours representing performance (
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