In the history of physics, verticity (Latin: verticitate) is a tendency to move around or toward the North or South Pole, often called Earth`s `vertices`. Some participants in the English Renaissance blamed the behavior of magnets on verticity. Francis Bacon believed that verticity is also spread amply throughout the cosmos and explains the mot......
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power of turning, especially of a magnet
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• (n.) The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
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Ver·tic'i·ty noun [ Confer French
verticité . See
Vertex .] The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation. [ R.]
Locke. « I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the
verticity of the loadstone.»
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