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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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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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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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, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display...
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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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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, 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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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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Burt's solar compass or astronomical compass/sun compass is a surveying instrument that makes use of the Sun's direction instead of magnetism. William...
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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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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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Political spectrum (redirect from Political Compass)
represent independent political dimensions. The expressions political compass and political map are used to refer to the political spectrum as well, especially...
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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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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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BeiDou (redirect from Compass navigation system)
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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Cardinal direction (redirect from Compass Direction Using Watch)
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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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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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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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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The Compass Project is the tenth studio album by Canadian country artist Brett Kissel. It is a four-part box set of albums released in 2023. The first...
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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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timeline of important dates in the history of Silva Sweden AB: 1928 Gunnar Tillander invents the first orienteering (baseplate) compass. 1932 The Silva Company...
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BBVA USA (redirect from Compass Bancshares, Inc.)
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 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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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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Goes: A History of the Compass Department of the Admiralty, a book by inventor Tuomas Vohlonen "Steady as She Goes", a Season 4 episode of Who's the Boss...
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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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