agonic line

noun

: an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting the north and south magnetic poles and passing through those points where there is no magnetic declination and where a freely suspended magnetic needle indicates true north compare aclinic line, isogonic line

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

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