资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Magnetic \Mag*net"ic\, Magnetical \Mag*net"ic*al\, a. [L.
   magneticus: cf. F. magn['e]tique.]
   1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the
      magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of
      iron; a magnetic needle.

   2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's
      magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

   3. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism;
      as, the magnetic metals.

   4. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the
      feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing
      attachment.

            She that had all magnetic force alone. --Donne.

   5. Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism,
      so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See {Magnetism}.

   {Magnetic amplitude}, {attraction}, {dip}, {induction}, etc.
      See under {Amplitude}, {Attraction}, etc.

   {Magnetic battery}, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets
      with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with
      great power.

   {Magnetic compensator}, a contrivance connected with a ship's
      compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the
      iron of the ship upon the needle.

   {Magnetic curves}, curves indicating lines of magnetic force,
      as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of
      a powerful magnet.

   {Magnetic elements}.
      (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel,
          cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable
          or becoming magnetic.
      (b) (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the
          declination, inclination, and intensity.
      (c) See under {Element}.

   {Magnetic equator}, the line around the equatorial parts of
      the earth at which there is no dip, the dipping needle
      being horizontal.

   {Magnetic field}, or {Field of magnetic force}, any space
      through which magnet exerts its influence.

   {Magnetic fluid}, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was
      formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of
      magnetism.

   {Magnetic iron}, or {Magnetic iron ore}. (Min.) Same as
      {Magnetite}.

   {Magnetic needle}, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and
      suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a
      delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction
      of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential
      part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the
      surveyor's.

   {Magnetic poles}, the two points in the opposite polar
      regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping
      needle is vertical.

   {Magnetic pyrites}. See {Pyrrhotite}.

   {Magnetic storm} (Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the
      earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden
      changes.

   {Magnetic telegraph}, a telegraph acting by means of a
      magnet. See {Telegraph}.

Equator \E*qua"tor\, n. [L. aequator one who equalizes: cf. F.
   ['e]quateur equator. See {Equate}.]
   1. (Geog.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface,
      everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and
      dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.

   2. (Astron.) The great circle of the celestial sphere,
      coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so
      called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights
      are of equal length; hence called also the {equinoctial},
      and on maps, globes, etc., the {equinoctial line}.

   {Equator} {of the sun or of a planet} (Astron.), the great
      circle whose plane passes through through the center of
      the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution.
      

   {Magnetic equator}. See {Aclinic}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

magnetic equator
     n : an imaginary line paralleling the equator where a magnetic
         needle has no dip [syn: {aclinic line}]