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  • wet compass

    a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.

  • dry compass

    a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.

  • mariner's compass

    a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.

  • range

    the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.

  • compass deviation card

    a card, sheet, or the like, with two compass roses printed on it concentrically, for recording, on a given voyage, the amount of deviation for which the navigator must compensate in using the ship's compass to steer a magnetic course.

  • gyrocompass

    a navigational compass containing a gyroscope rotor, that, when adjusted for the latitude and speed of the vessel or aircraft, indicates the direction of true north along the surface of the earth or communicates this information to one or more gyro repeaters.
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