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A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

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A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).

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The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

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A space within limits; an area.

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An enclosing limit; a boundary, a circumference.

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within the compass of an encircling wall

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Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.

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Scope.

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A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

Use your compass instead of the radar.

The compass needle is a little steel magnet balanced upon a pivot; one end of the needle, which always bears a distinguishing mark, points approximately, but not in general exactly, to the north,' the vertical plane through the direction of the needle being termed the magnetic meridian.

I think the compass tells you what kind of soul it is.

He took the soul compass only.

This can be more easily shown if the compass is replaced by a magnetized knitting needle, supported horizontally by a thread.

He unpacked his compass and figured out the direction he should walk in order to stay near the river.

If Ritschl had clearly shown that judgments of value enfold and transform other types of knowledge, just as the "spiritual man" includes and transfigures but does not annihilate the "natural man," then within the compass of this spiritually conditioned knowledge all other knowledge would be seen to have a function and a home.

Whether this justifies Wagner's successors and imitators in showing a constant preference for passages of which not even the general outline is practicable; whether it justifies a state of things in which the normal compass of every instrument in an advanced loth-century score would appear to be about a fifth higher than any player of that instrument will admit;, whether it proves that it is artistically desirable that when there.

On the better farms this is done with a spirit-level or compass from time to time and hillside ditches put in at the proper places.

This compass is only a few thousand years old.

A further difficulty arose in connexion with the variation of the compass, which induced Pedro Reinel Behaim'S Globe 1492 Fig.

Other accessories are an hour-circle, around the north pole, a compass placed beneath the globe, and a flexible quadrant used for finding the distances between places.

The apex in this case will describe a circle, or rather a spiral, as it is elongating all the time, pointing to all points of the compass in succession.

High above all the medley of kindreds and tongues, untrammelled by national traditions, for he had outgrown the compass of any one nation, invested with the glory of achievements in which the old bounds of the possible seemed to fall away, stood in 324 the man Alexander.

Not hesitating to hand over the compass, she appeared torn at taking the final step of betrayal.

With a soul compass in one hand and his dinner in the other, Darkyn was satisfied for the first time in months.

His experimental investigations are carried out with plain and usually home-made apparatus, the accessories being crude and rough, but the essentials thoughtfully designed so as to compass in the simplest and most perfect manner the special end in view.

Upon one of these is based the principle of the mariner's compass, which is said to have been known to the Chinese as early as I ioo B.C., though it was not introduced into Europe until more than 2000 years later; a magnet supported so that its axis is free to turn in a horizontal plane will come to rest with its poles pointing approximately north and south.

Lay the compass upon the cardboard, and observe the rate at which its needle vibrates after being displaced from its position of equilibrium; this will vary greatly in different regions.

Darkyn was old enough to read the compass.

It is feeblest in architecture and strongest in the branches demanding skill and care in a limited compass, such as painting, porcelain and enamel.

A compass having a very short needle is placed on the line which bisects the axis of the magnet at right angles, and is moved until a neutral point is found where the force due to the earth's field H is balanced by that due to the magnet.

They got another compass.

Gabe asked, holding up the compass.

I figured out a few of the symbols on your compass.

The city is built with its streets running between the cardinal points of the compass and crossing each other at right angles.

Clearly you found the compass.

The writing on the tablet was too faded to make out, and the symbols he did see looked nothing like those on the compass.

How old is the compass?

She held out something that looked like a compass.

In 1727 he gained the prize given by the Academie des Sciences for his paper "On the best manner of forming and distributing the masts of ships"; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation "On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea," the other for his paper "On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea."

This great event was preceded by the general Portu- utilization in Europe of the polarity of the magnetic guese ex- needle in the construction of the mariner's compass.

Its presence contributes to the dark colour of many basalts and other basic rocks, and may cause them to disturb the compass.

The cotton is pressed locally and afterwards " compressed " into a very small compass.

Some of the principal phenomena of magnetism may be demonstrated with very little apparatus; much may be done with a small bar-magnet, a pocket compass and a few ounces of iron filings.

The application of this property to the construction of the mariner's compass is obvious, and it is in connexion with navigation that the first references to it occur '(see' Compass).

In the Nibelungenlied, however, the primitive supremacy of the blood-tie has given place to the more modern idea of the supremacy of the passion of love, and Kriemhild marries Attila (Etzel) in order to compass the death of her brothers, in revenge for the murder of Siegfried.

D is due to transient induction in horizontal soft iron, the direction of which passes continuously under or over the compass.

The results of these observations are entered in a compass journal for future reference when fog or darkness prevails.

The committee reported in July 1840, and after minor improvements by the makers the admiralty compass, the card of which is shown in figs.

The Chinese had soon occasion to perceive how much more essential the perfection of the compass was to the superior navigators of Europe than to themselves, as the commanders of the ` Lion ' and ` Hindostan,' trusting to that instrument, stood out directly from the land into the sea."

Praiseworthy efforts to compass the first end have been made in recent legislation.

Most depended upon survey using the mariner's compass.

What about drawing diagrams in maths or using a compass?

Talk to the men, then give them the compass.

But the very futility of the accusations must have betrayed to More the bitter determination of his enemies to compass his destruction.

A carefully made ship's compass is usually employed, though in some cases the compass card, with its attached magnets, is made reversible, so that the inclination to the zero of the card of the magnetic axis of the system of magnets attached to the card can be eliminated by reversal.

The principle of the method consists in deflecting the compass needle by means of a horizontal magnet supported vertically over the compass card, the axis of the deflecting magnet being always perpendicular to the axis of the magnet attached to the card.

It is also more particularly applied to a mathematical instrument ("pair of compasses") for measuring or for describing a circle, and to the mariner's compass.

The mariner's compass, with which this article is concerned, is an instrument by means of which the directive force of that great magnet, the Earth, upon a freely-suspended needle, is utilized for a purpose essential to navigation.