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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The angle between magnetic north and true north at a particular location.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north; called also
magnetic variation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
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