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- (context, military, nautical, navigation) In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.
- (cartography) In cartography, the annual change in direction of the horizontal component of the Earth"s magnetic field.
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