Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any instrument the action of which depends upon an application of the magnetic needle, as the plain compass or vernier-compass and the vernier-transit.
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Examples
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"double" needle-instrument on some of the local lines and in railway telegraphs.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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