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agonic line
"An imaginary line round the earth passing through both the north pole and the north magnetic pole, at any point on which a compass needle points to true north", Mid 19th century: from Greek
agōnios
,
agōnos
(from
a-
'without' +
gonia
'angle') + -ic.