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Dip of the needle
Dip Dip, n. 1. The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid. ``The dip of oars in unison.' --Glover. 2. Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch. 3. A liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. 4. A dipped candle. [Colloq.] --Marryat. Dip of the horizon (Astron.), the angular depression of the seen or visible horizon below the true or natural horizon; the angle at the eye of an observer between a horizontal line and a tangent drawn from the eye to the surface of the ocean. Dip of the needle, or Magnetic dip, the angle formed, in a vertical plane, by a freely suspended magnetic needle, or the line of magnetic force, with a horizontal line; -- called also inclination. Dip of a stratum (Geol.), its greatest angle of inclination to the horizon, or that of a line perpendicular to its direction or strike; -- called also the pitch.

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- the north end of a comp**** needle will point upward in the Southern Hemisphere (negative dip) or downward in the Northern Hemisphere (positive dip)....
- Dip circles (also dip needles) are used to measure the angle between the horizon and the Earth's magnetic field (the dip angle). They were used in surveying...
- given from one vial of the reconstituted vaccine. The established technique for smallpox vaccination is to dip the needle in the vaccine, and then perpendicularly...
- device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element...
- placing a pinch, or "dip", of tobacco between the lip and the gum (sublabial administration). The act of using it is called dipping. Dipping tobacco is colloquially...
- when the aircraft is in a banked attitude, as the needle dips down in the direction of the turn. This is the result of the loop itself banking with the aircraft...
- experiments explained the dipping of the needle by the magnetic attraction of the earth, and were used to predict where the vertical dip would be found. Such...
- (red or black) the end of the comp**** needle with the corresponding colour. Data are then recorded as (for example) 25°->333° (dip and dip-direction) or...
- the magnetic variation, was actually Wright's work. Gilbert had invented a dip-comp**** and compiled a table recording the dip of the needle below the...
- demonstrated magnetic dip by creating a comp**** needle that pivoted on a horizontal axis. The needle tilted at a steep angle relative to the horizon line. Magnetic...