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AGONIC LINES (from Gr. a-, privative, and ywvia, an

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ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle) , the

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TERM

term given to the imaginary lines on the

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earth's

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SURFACE

surface connecting points at which the magnetic

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NEEDLE (O. Eng. ncedl; the word appears in various forms in Teutonic languages, Ger. Nadel, Dutch naal, the root being ne-, to sew, cf. Ger. nahen, and probably Lat. nere, to spin, Gr. vi)ats, spinning)

needle points to the

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GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical

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north and

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south .

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