Meanings
nounverticity (countable and uncountable, plural verticities)
plural verticities
- countableuncountableThe quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC - countableuncountableAn alleged tendency to move around or toward the North or South Pole.
Origin
Compare French verticité. See vertex.
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