Magnetic Compass - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: magnetic compassmagnetic compass
An device using a magnet such as a magnetic needle to indicate the direction of magnetic north...
magnetic needle
A slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a low friction mounting used to indicate the direction of the earths magnetic pole...
magnetic north
The direction in which the north pointing end of a compass needle points at low latitudes it is close to geographic true north but deviates substantially from true north as one nears the north pole...
Compassing
Compassing [fr. compasser, Fr., to encircle, con, with, and passus, a step, Lat.], imagining or contriving. To compass or imagine the death of the king, of his queen, or of their eldest son and heir is treason by 25 Edw. 3, c. 2. 'Compassing' or 'imagining' are here synonymous terms, the word 'compass' signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect; but this compassing or imagining, being an act of the mind, cannot fall under any judicial cognizance unless it be demonstrated by some open, or overt, act, See 4 Bl. Com. 78....
magnetic field
The space around a magnet through which it exerts magnetic force a field of force surrounding a permanent magnet electrical current or a moving charged particle called also magnetic flux and field of magnetic force...
magnetic force
The force caused by a magnetic field a force which affects objects having a magnetic field and objects in which a magnetic field can be induced such as ferromagnetic substances a magnetic force manifests itself as an attraction for iron It is associated with electric currents and moving charged paticles as well as permanent magnets...
Magnetic
Pertaining to the magnet possessing the properties of the magnet or corresponding properties as a magnetic bar of iron a magnetic needle...
magnetic monopole
a hypothetical subatomic particle having only one type of magnetic charge the magnetic analogue of an electrically charged particle it has only one magnetic pole instead of the two observed in all common magnetic object it was still not observed as of 1998...
Sea compass
The mariners compass See under Compass...
magnetic levitation
The process of supporting an object such as a vehicle with a magnetic field so that it does not contact the object supporting it it is a method used for eliminating friction in moving vehicles and is used eg in high speed rail technology where a train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction...
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