The world community seems to be losing its strategic bearings.

The left, which had previously looked to Marx, lost its bearings.

In short, the global economy replete with get rich quick schemes, overpaid bosses, and corporate fraud has lost its moral bearings.

Small units often have direct drive generators, direct current output, aeroelastic blades, lifetime bearings and use a vane to point into the wind.

In earlier years, Dr. Khan and his collaborators published a number of papers detailing critical issues regarding the balancing of centrifuges and magnetic bearings.

Using the optical or prism sight, such compasses can be read with extreme accuracy when taking bearings to an object, often to fractions of a degree.

By carefully recording distances (time or paces) and magnetic bearings traveled, one can plot a course and return to one's starting point using the compass alone.

It's full of all kinds of gyroscopes and pulleys and gadgets and ball bearings, and they don't work as well as they ought to in the heat of battle.

For example the power of a drill (or any other machine) is proportional to the volume, while the friction of the drill's bearings and gears is proportional to their surface area.

Inside of the bronze ball there's a lead weight that is free swinging on an axle that's on two bearings that pass in between, across it, like this, that counterbalance this weight.

Bearing compass A bearing compass is a magnetic compass mounted in such a way that it allows the taking of bearings of objects by aligning them with the lubber line of the bearing compass.