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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIP (Old Eng. dyppan, connected with the common Teutonic root seen in " deep ")

DIP (Old Eng. dyppan, connected with the
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COMMON
common
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TEUTONIC
TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
Teutonic
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ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
root seen in " deep ") , the

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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 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 makes with the

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HORIZON (Gr. 6pfTwv, dividing)

horizon . A freely suspended magnetic needle will not maintain a

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HORIZONTAL

horizontal position except at the magnetic

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EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal)

equator . Over the N. magnetic

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pole the

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north-seeking end of the needle points directly downwards and dips at an intermediate angle at intermediate distances between the magnetic poles and equator . There are

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SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular progressive

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variations of

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DIP (Old Eng. dyppan, connected with the common Teutonic root seen in " deep ")

dip as well as of

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DECLINATION (from Lat. declinare, to decline)

declination and the

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MAXIMA

maxima are

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INDEPENDENT

independent of each other . In II 1576 the dip at

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LONDON

London was 71° 50', 'in 1720 (max.) 74° 42', in 1900 67° 9' .

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