verticity
nounEtymology Compare French verticité. See vertex.
1
The 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:
2
An alleged tendency to move around or toward the North or South Pole.