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Webster 1913 Edition


Northness

North′ness

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Noun.
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
Faraday.

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northness

northness

English

Noun

northness (usually uncountable, plural northnesses)

  1. A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
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