standard compass

Wilmot himself confessed that he had not been near the standard compass for an hour.

No standard compasses, and you know what a small-boat horizon is, with a big sea, for a sextant.

My standard compass was amidships on the companionway.

One reason was their interest in solving geometrical problems that could not be solved using standard compass and straightedge construction.

No.1213) still needed binnacles and standard compasses as of 11 December, but prognosticated that both ships would be ready to sail on the 12th.

Constructions are done using a main palette, which contains some useful construction shortcuts in addition to the standard compass and ruler tools.

The R-2s were equipped with Lewis machine guns, wireless sets, and standard compasses, but their performance proved little better than that of their predecessors.

This purely local variation I derived from the deviation card of my standard compass and then applied to the Correct Magnetic Course.

In the electromagnetic chaos that was left of the stripped magnetic field, not even a standard compass would work; Lao held a terrain-orientation scanner, its uneven lines repeated in a ghostly network on his face shield.

The standard compass found in Wanted is replaced by directional arrows based on proximity, that grow to become arcs around the perimeter of the compass as other players near, and will eventually create a full circle when other players are very close.

Many Oz fans believe this is the correct orientation, perhaps as a result of Glinda's spell, which has the effect of confusing most standard compasses; perhaps resembling its similarity to the world Alice found through the looking glass in which everything was a mirror image; or perhaps just reflecting the alien nature of Oz.