For a table of the thirty two points, see compass points.

Compass

Compass

Compass Labels

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.

As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.

What worries me is the compass.

Why the compass points to the North?

Why the compass point to the North?

Later, these were divided, in China into 24, and in Europe into 32 equally spaced points around the compass card.

A straightedge is to draw these lines. A compass is to draw these curves.

Golly, I'm just totally losing it.

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.

Robotics.com Example implementation for digital solid state compass.

Are you sure your compass is right?

East, West. Points of the compass, each as stupid as the other.

A similar process is used to calibrate the compass in light general aviation aircraft, with the compass deviation card often mounted permanently just above or below the magnetic compass on the instrument panel.

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The compass can be corrected in three ways.

Refers to compass correction by Fourier series.

Albert Einstein was asking, why the compass point to the North?

Well you should have checked your compass before you smashed it.

We wouldn't have a chance. We need that compass.

Brothers and sisters know nothing of the points of the compass.

With the sun this high, it's pretty hard to tell the points of the compass.

The effect of ferromagnetic materials in the compass's environment can be corrected by two iron balls mounted on either side of the compass binnacle.

It's a dot! It's a dot, a dot!

It'll do this for weeks, until it kind of gradually loses the plot.

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Construction of a magnetic compass Magnetic needle A magnetic rod is required when constructing a compass.

Same for competition. Competition is not on the canvass.

This one he hauled here and laid down by compass to point the way to the doubloons.

You? It takes more than a compass, Englishman.

It's, it's a dot!

It's a dot, a dot!

One first reads the scale that shows the angle subtended by the lid of the compass, and then depending on the colour shown (red or black) the end of the compass needle with the corresponding colour.

And I think that is an expansion of your moral compass when you manage to do that.

According to Needham, the Chinese in the Song Dynasty and continuing Yuan Dynasty did make use of a dry compass, although this type never became as widely used in China as the wet compass.

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Ah! It's a dot, a dot!

Thus, the use of a magnetic compass by the military for land navigation occurred sometime before 1044, but incontestable evidence for the use of the compass as a maritime navigational device did not appear until 1117.

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