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单词 north-westing
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north-westingn.

Forms: see north-west adv., adj., and n. and -ing suffix1; also 1500s noothweastinge (perhaps transmission error).
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: north-west n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Probably < north-west n. + -ing suffix1. Perhaps compare Middle French nordoester (of a compass needle) to deviate from true north in a north-west direction (1579; French (rare) nordouester ). Compare slightly earlier norwesting n. and also north-easting n.
Obsolete.
Deviation of a compass needle from true north in a north-west direction.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > variation
north-easting1555
variation of the compass, (lodestone,) or needle?a1560
norwesting1561
north-westing1571
variation1595
declination1625
magnetic variation1696
variation of the variation1706
magnetic declination1787
1571 W. Bourne Almanacke & Prognostication in Regiment for Sea (1963) 55 The Northeasting and Noothweastinge of the compas.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. ii. vii. f. 182v In euery other place the Compasse doth varie from the true North, eyther by Northeasting or Northwesting.
a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 311 The several Degrees of Variation of the Compass in North-easting or North-westing.
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 607 This Deviation of the Needle is called by the Mariners, the North-Easting or North-Westing of the Needle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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