Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
magnetic north \magnetic north\ n.
The direction in which the north-pointing end of a compass
needle points; at low latitudes it is close to geographic
(true) north, but deviates substantially from true north as
one nears the north pole.
Syn: north, compass north.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
magnetic north
n 1: the direction in which a compass needle points [syn:
{north}, {magnetic north}, {compass north}]