Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no inclination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said of the imaginary line near the earth's equator on which the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The
aclinic line is also termed themagnetic equator .
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- adjective physics Without
inclination or dipping.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἀκλινής (aklinēs, "unswerving"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + κλίνω (klinō, "bend")
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Examples
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However, one incident of nearly unimaginable violence for which Bush and Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld share immediate and direct responsibilityoccurred earlier today in Iraq when a US soldier opened fire on his comrades killing five of them as he waited in aclinic at Camp Liberty outside Baghdad.
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- shaped like cluster of grapes; full of seeds, like a grape. adj. - containing small seeds or drupes. aclinic adj. - applied to line passing through all points where there is no magnetic inclination. aclinic line, magnetic equator. aconite
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word aclinic
JM is going straight to an aclinic clinic to investigate this lack of attraction.
March 25, 2010