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compass card

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compass card
n.
A freely pivoting circular disk carrying the magnetic needles of a compass and marked with the 32 points of the compass and the 360 degrees of the circle.
compass card
n
(Mathematics & Measurements / Navigation) a compass in the form of a card that rotates so that ``0°'' or ``North'' points to magnetic north
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Noun1.compass cardcompass card - compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north
mariner's compass
magnetic compass - compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north


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The steam gear clattered, stopped, clattered again; and the helmsman's eyeballs seemed to project out of a hungry face as if the compass card behind the binnacle glass had been meat.
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But there is this difference in the Departure: that the term does not imply so much a sea event as a definite act entailing a process - the precise observation of certain landmarks by means of the compass card.
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