VERTICITY
, is that property of the magnet or loadstone, or of a needle &c touched with it, by which it turns or directs itself to some peculiar point, as to its pole.—The attraction of the magnet was known long before its Verticity.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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