Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tendency of a magnetic needle to point toward the south.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.
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- noun A tendency in the end of a
magnetic needle to point toward thesouth pole .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I’m sure I don’t know, but there were suome Roos partying on mai street Saturday night, and they left a hyoooge mess … maybe they travelled with a southness?
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On the contrary, if the action of a north magnetic pole were to produce a southness in the nearest part of the copper plate, and a diffuse northness elsewhere (82.), as is really the case with iron; then the use of another north pole on the opposite side of the same part of the plate should double the effect instead of destroying it, and double the tendency of the first magnet to move with the plate.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Michael Faraday 1829
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