Definition of North pole

1. Noun. The northernmost point of the Earth's axis.

Generic synonyms: Pole
Derivative terms: North-polar

Definition of North pole

1. Proper noun. (geography) The Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole; the northernmost point on Earth, of latitude 90°. ¹

2. Proper noun. (geography) The Magnetic North Pole of Earth. ¹

3. Proper noun. (geography) The Geomagnetic North Pole of Earth. ¹

4. Noun. The northernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth. ¹

5. Noun. The positive pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic north. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of North Pole

North Islander
North Korea
North Korean
North Korean monetary unit
North Korean won
North Koreans
North Levantine Arabic
North Maluku
North Ndebele
North Ossetia
North Ossetia-Alania
North Pacific
North Peak
North Platte
North Platte River
North Pole
North Queensland
North Queensland tick fever
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Riding of Yorkshire
North Sami
North Sea
North Shields
North Somerset
North Star
North Star State
North Sulawesi
North Sumatra
North Temperate Zone
North Vietnam

Literary usage of North pole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"The north end of the needle points northwards, but not exactly in the direction of the geographical north pole. At some places it points east of the true ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"north pole —Continued. Locating the pole. G: C. Day. 11. Harp. W. 53: 16. ... Was paradise at the north pole? R. of Ra. 39: 99-100. Ja. '09. S. 16, '09. ..."

3. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"Suppose the north pole of the weaker body to be brought into contact with the north pole of the stronger; the latter will expel north polarity, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Instead, however, of finding any solid ice upon which to reach the north pole in sledge- boats, he found no heavy ice at all, but only loose drift-ice, ..."

5. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... by the north pole of the earth, it will communicate by degrees a motion to the copper needle, and both in moving towards the north, ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"If the magnet is turned into the opposite direction, so as to bring its south pole where the north pole was before, the induced magnetism of the iron bar is ..."

7. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"... EXPEDITION TO THE north pole. FOR the first time, we have a North Polar Expedition starting from the Golden Gate, and by a route hitherto unexplored—an ..."

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