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Meanings of mariner's compass in anglès
Compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north.
Synonyms
Examples for "compass card"
Examples for "compass card"
1
The mariners' compass with a pivoted needle and compass card was introduced.
2
I glanced at the compass card, and brought the wheel up a spoke.
3
I thought I heard him say something, and glanced up from the compass card.
4
Galbraith peered at the swaying compass card, giving himself time.
5
The brown eyes gazed thoughtfully at the compass card.
Usage of mariner's compass in anglès
1
Almost instantaneously we detected that the mariner's compass had vanished with him.
2
His mariner's compass and sounding machine have done good service to seamen.
3
In common with other ancients they knew the principle of the mariner's compass.
4
The rose is the face or card of the mariner's compass.
5
The mariner's compass, perhaps derived from the Arabs, also came into general use.
6
Waldeman, King of Sweden, introduces the mariner's compass among the navigators of the Baltic.
7
Tom, I shall show you how we steer by means of the mariner's compass.
8
What would our civilization have been if the mariner's compass had never been known?
9
Like a mariner's compass, we are restless until we find repose in this one direction.
10
The improved mariner's compass enabled Columbus to find the New world; gunpowder made possible its conquest.
11
This was the case with the mariner's compass.
12
These instruments are something like the mariner's compass, with the sensitiveness enormously increased by galvanic currents.
13
In like manner the introduction of the mariner's compass was followed by imposing material and moral effects.
14
Cub produced the chart and a hand-book diagram of a mariner's compass about three inches in diameter.
15
They had no real telescopes or microscopes, no mariner's compass or chronometer, and no very delicate balances.
16
No man knows who invented the mariner's compass, or who first hollowed out a canoe from a log.