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| Domain | Definition |
Military | The horizontal direction expressed as an angular distance measured clockwise from compass north. (references) |
Mining | Direction as indicated by a compass without any allowances for compass error. The direction indicated by a magnetic compass may differ by a considerable amount from the true direction referred to a meridian of theEarth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COMPASS DIRECTION |
| English words defined with "COMPASS DIRECTION": loxodrome ♦ rhumb, rhumb line. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COMPASS DIRECTION": alinement clamp ♦ line of bearing, lpb ♦ stratometric survey. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Chart showing the positions of ships inside Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese Attack, at about 0800 on 7 December. The orientation of the compass direction arrow in the chart's center is turned approximately 45 degrees too far in a counterclockwise direction. Some of the ships moored in "nests" in the northern part of the harbor are listed in incorrect order. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
compass direction | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMPASS DIRECTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | tájoló irány. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ompasscay irectionday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-i-m-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: accordionists, anisometropic, operationisms. | |
-4 letters: accordionist, adoptionisms, anisotropies, anisotropism, cardiotonics, codirections, compensators, conspiracies, cosmeticians, craniotomies, creationisms, descriptions, desiccations, disseminator, dominatrices, importancies, imprecations, microscopies, microscopist, microseconds, miscaptioned, miscreations, operationism, periodontics, preadmission, predications, romanticised, romanticises. | |
-5 letters: administers, adoptionism, adsorptions, aeronomists, anisotropic, ascriptions, astronomies, cardiotonic, carotenoids, carotinoids, ceramicists, codirection, compactions, compactness, comparisons, compensator, compression, concretisms, conscripted, consociated. | |
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