Agonic

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

a=gon=ic

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Agonic, a. [Gr. without angles; 'a priv. + an angle.].

Not forming an angle. [1913 Webster]

Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Agonic, adj. having or forming no angle.

Idiom

agonic line a line passing through the two poles, along which a magnetic needle points directly north or south.

Etymology

Gk agonios without angle (as A-(1), gonia angle)