Annual Definitions for Land Surveyors

annual aberration—See aberration, annual; aberration of light (definition 2)

annual change—The amount of secular change in the Earth’s magnetic field which occurs in one year.

annual variation—The small regular fluctuation in the Earth’s magnetism over a period of one year.

Source: NSPS “Definitions of Surveying and Related Terms“, used with permission.

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