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Definition of Compass card
1. Noun. Compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compass Card
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Literary usage of Compass card
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Londonby Royal Society (Great Britain) by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"Mark one of these circles (the second in the order of the preceding description)
with the points of the compass*, like a compass card ; or (better) mark ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"He then looks through the lens at the degree divisions of the compass-card, and
turns the mirror round its horizontal axis till be brings the image of the ..."
3. The American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation and by Nathaniel Bowditch, George Wood Logan (1906)
"Radiating from this boss are 32 silk threads whose outer ends are made fast to
the inner edge of the compass card; these threads sustain the weight of the ..."
4. Plane Trigonometry with Practical Applications by Leonard Eugene Dickson (1922)
"It is so measured on the new1 compass card used in the United States Navy, the
circular card being numbered clockwise from 0° at north completely around the ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1914)
"In this device we have a small disk marked with the cardinal points to represent
a compass card and mounted upon a ring swiveled to rotate on a vertical ..."
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