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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large magnetic compass used aboard ships, consisting of a compass card suspended in a gimbal-mounted bowl.
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- noun A
compass (navigational instrument)
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- noun compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north
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