Usually means: Difference between true and magnetic north.
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  1. magnetic variation: Merriam-Webster
  2. magnetic variation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. magnetic variation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. magnetic variation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. magnetic variation: Vocabulary.com
  6. magnetic variation: Wordnik
  7. magnetic variation: Wiktionary
  8. magnetic variation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. magnetic variation: Dictionary.com
  10. Magnetic variation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. magnetic variation: Rhymezone
  12. magnetic variation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. magnetic variation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. magnetic variation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnetic variation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnetic variation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnetic variation: Medical dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  3. Magnetic Variation, Magnetic Variation: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See magnetic_variations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (magnetic variation)

noun:  (military, nautical, navigation) In navigation, at a given place and time, the horizontal angle between the true north and magnetic north measured east or west according to whether magnetic north lies east or west of true north.
noun:  (cartography) In cartography, the annual change in direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field.

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