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