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    The compass is a magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction in regards to the geographic cardinal points. The structure of...
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    The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose...
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  • History Compass is a peer-reviewed online-only academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. Originally launched in association with the Institute of...
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    A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or...
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    A compass rose or compass star, sometimes called a wind rose or rose of the winds, is a polar diagram displaying the orientation of the cardinal directions...
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  • The Political Compass is a website soliciting responses to a set of 62 propositions in order to rate political ideology in a spectrum with two axes: one...
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  • Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company...
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    straightedge-and-compass construction – also known as ruler-and-compass construction, Euclidean construction, or classical construction – is the construction of lengths...
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    qibla (qiblah) compass (sometimes also called qibla/qiblah indicator or qiblanuma) is a modified compass used by Muslims to indicate the direction to face...
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    Compass, Inc. operates a residential real estate brokerage in the United States. It has approximately 29,000 agents, who are generally independent contractors...
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  • Compass Lexecon is a global economic consulting firm founded in 1977 with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. It provides analysis of economic issues pertaining...
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  • Compass FM was an Independent Local Radio station serving Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham. Last owned by Bauer Radio, the station broadcast from 2001...
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    scale of maps. "Reduction Compass". Epact. Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Retrieved 10 January 2022. "Reduction compass". Galileo Virtual Museum...
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    diameter Compass Adrianov compass Astrocompass Geological compass Grid compass Hand compass History of the compass Marine sandglass Prismatic compass Qibla...
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  • The Compass Players (or Compass Theater) was an improvisational theatre revue active from 1955 to 1958 in Chicago and St. Louis. Founded by David Shepherd...
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    satellite Compass-G2 was launched on 15 April 2009. On 15 January 2010, the official website of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System went online, and the system's...
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    The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the...
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    a compass is a curved circular form. A compass plane is a plane that is convex, length-ways, on the underside, for smoothing the concave faces of curved...
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    The EA-37B Compass Call (formerly EC-37B) is an Electronic Attack aircraft based on the Gulfstream G550 entering service with the United States Air Force...
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    Suunto (category Sporting goods manufacturers of Finland)
    company that manufactures and markets sports watches, dive computers, compasses and precision instruments. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs...
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    azimuth compass (or azimuthal compass) is a nautical instrument used to measure the magnetic azimuth, the angle of the arc on the horizon between the direction...
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  • Compass Minerals International, Inc is an American public company that, through its subsidiaries, is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, magnesium...
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    Oren Cass (redirect from American Compass)
    has served as the chief economist at American Compass, a conservative think tank. He previously worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in...
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    type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe)...
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    The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation. The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge...
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    A hand compass (also hand bearing compass or sighting compass) is a compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use and fitted with a sighting device...
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    Mexico, and Texas. The bank was earlier named Central Bank and Trust Company, Central Bank, Central Bancshares of the South, and Compass Bancshares. On March...
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    The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials...
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  • In geometry, the compass equivalence theorem is an important statement in compass and straightedge constructions. The tool advocated by Plato in these...
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  • Philosophy Compass is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing review articles on current issues in philosophy. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell and the editor-in-chief...
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