Meanings (ES + gloss)
aguja de bitácora • aguja de marear • brújula
A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
1689/1690, John Locke, On improvement of understanding He that […] first discovered the use of the compass […] did more for the propagation of knowledge […] than those who built wo…
a glance at his compass would have shown him that a northerly course instead of an easterly could not be right
alcance • ámbito • área
A space within limits; an area.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
In going up the Missisippi ^([sic]), we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.
Phrases
Brunton compassChinese compassSquare and Compassall points of the compassastrocompassbeam compassbiocompassbow compassbox the compasscabin compasscolor compasscompass cardcompass deflectioncompass dialcompass errorcompass jellyfishcompass needlecompass outcompass planecompass plantcompass pointcompass rosecompass sawcompass swingcompass termitecompass timbercompass wallahcompass windowcompasslessevery point of the compassfetch a compassgyro compassgyrocompassgyromagnetic compassgyroscope compassgyroscopic compasshanging compassmagnetic compassmariner's compassmoral compass
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