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Meaning of "verticity" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF VERTICITY

vɜːˈtɪsɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VERTICITY

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Verticity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VERTICITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Verticity

In the history of physics, verticity is the tendency of magnets, among other things, to move around or toward the vertices or poles of the Earth. Scholars of the English Renaissance typically associated verticity with magnets. Francis Bacon argued that the verticity seen in magnets is also spread amply throughout the cosmos and explains the motion of oceans, winds, and even celestial bodies. Bacon formulated his unusual theory partly in response to the acclaimed 1600 treatise On the Magnet and Magnetick Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth, written by William Gilbert. Gilbert discussed two kinds of verticity. Surface verticity is the tendency to point north found in ordinary "loadstones" and magnetised iron. This verticity was a weaker expression of a much more powerful sort of verticity intrinsic to the core of the Earth. Gilbert was an early adopter of geomotivism, and this so-called deep verticity was his explanation of the then-controversial idea that the Earth spun on its axis. Deep verticity also explained surface verticity.

Definition of verticity in the English dictionary

The definition of verticity in the dictionary is the ability to turn.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VERTICITY

analyticity · aromaticity · authenticity · automaticity · chromaticity · ellipticity · facticity · hermeticity · heteroscedasticity · homoscedasticity · inauthenticity · inelasticity · rusticity · spasticity · stypticity · superplasticity · tacticity · unauthenticity · viscoelasticity · vorticity

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VERTICITY

vertical integration · vertical mobility · vertical overlap · vertical planning · vertical stabilizer · vertical take-off aircraft · vertical union · verticality · vertically · vertically opposite angles · verticalness · vertices · verticil · verticillaster · verticillastrate · verticillate · verticillately · verticillation · verticillium · vertigines

WORDS THAT END LIKE VERTICITY

capacity · complicity · cytotoxicity · elasticity · electricity · ethnicity · felicity · historicity · hydroelectricity · hydrophobicity · modulus of elasticity · monotonicity · multiplicity · nephrotoxicity · periodicity · plasticity · publicity · simplicity · specificity · synchronicity · toxicity

Synonyms and antonyms of verticity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «verticity» into 25 languages

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Vertizität
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Trends of use of verticity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VERTICITY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about verticity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERTICITY»

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De Magnete
rather to a point east or west, it takes almost no verticity, or a very faint verticity. This verticity is acquired chiefly through the lengthening. But when inferior iron ore, in which no magnetic properties are apparent, is put in the fire, (its position with ...
William Gilbert, 2013
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Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 4
A verticity meter is a motionless spherical pendulum with a device to measure and record the horizontal displacement of its bob. In Boulder, Colorado, we installed two verticity meters, 2 meter and 6 meters long, in 1997. Since then we ...
B. G. Sidharth, M.V. Altaisky, 2001
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PC Mag
A new company named Verticity.com is offering a novel solution. Verticity.com hires remote programmers and IT professionals in other countries who will work for low wages. Verticity.com CEO Jeff Mason says that there are IT professionals in ...
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Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
He goes on to offer a second kind of argument for the westerly motion, which rests upon the verticity of the Earth, that is, the tendency manifested in magnetic needles to turn towards the vertex or pole ^.84-6/83-5). Here he employs Gilbert's  ...
Stephen Gaukroger, 2001
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia ...
It is likewise true what is delivered of irons heated in the fire, that they contract a verticity in their refrigeration;7 for, heated red-hot and cooled in the meridian from north to south, they presently contract a polary power, and being poised in air or ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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The Magazine of Popular Science and Journal of the Useful Arts
The remainder of these papers is devoted to the investigation of the properties of the magnetic curve, which are very fully developed: and to the determination of the curve of verticity (or that at any points of □which a needle being placed, ...
‎1836
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Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Gilbert labels this power of the lodestone “verticity.” Unlike “revolution,” though, verticity is an observed phenomenon, caused by a magnetic nature. Recall the experiment with the terrella in a wooden bowl cited above. In that case, the magnet ...
David Marshall Miller, 2014
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Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts
The remainder of these papers is devoted to the investigation of the properties of the magnetic curve, which are very fully developed: and to the determination of the curve of verticity (or that at any points of which a needle being placed, it shall  ...
‎1836
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
applies to the convergent curves of verticity for no other than the values above assigned. XXIX. — On the Branches of the Curve of Verticity corresponding to the divergent System of Magnetic Branches. Let O, T, M, U, and Z' Z denote the same  ...
‎1836
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence
It is likewise true what is delivered of irons heated in the fire, that they contract a verticity in their refrigeration; 7 for, heated red-hot and cooled in the meridian from north to south, they presently- contract a polary power, and being poised in air ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VERTICITY»

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IISc unveils the magic of science
How does a forest fire go out of control? The Combustion, Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory explained the phenomenon of verticity. A single source of fire, ... «Times of India, Mar 14»
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Dare 2b - Welcome to our mountain
This includes the Men's and Women's Verticity waterproof jackets, Hyrdo-lite lightweight waterproof jackets and the in-lite windshell. All are perfect for ... «Easier, Mar 11»
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