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Definition of Magnetic compass
1. Noun. Compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north.
Specialized synonyms: Compass Card, Mariner's Compass
Terms within: Magnetic Needle
Definition of Magnetic compass
1. Noun. (military)(nautical) An instrument containing a freely suspended magnetic element which displays the direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field at the point of observation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnetic Compass
Literary usage of Magnetic compass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... as a matter of careful record—in spite of the observer's youth, and of the
fact that he carried no instrument of precision but a magnetic compass. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"Navigating conditions in aircraft are such that little or no reliance can be
placed on the indications of the ordinary magnetic compass. ..."
3. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1917)
"This may be compared to the magnetic compass which has a maximum directive force
at the magnetic equator and none at the magnetic poles. ..."
4. Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John by Richard Collinson, Thomas Bernard Collinson (1889)
"24 THE magnetic compass.—It is not yet known what is the source of that peculiar
... Hence, in voyaging by the magnetic compass, correction has to be ..."
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