magnetic compass

How To Use magnetic compass In A Sentence

• Remember that the magnetic compass, clock and stop-watch are your most important navigation instruments.
• A pre-set magnetic compass and gyroscopic auto-pilot determined and maintained its course.
• Your introduction to this kind may have come via a toy horseshoe magnet or a magnetic compass. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
• Both the radar and gyrocompass were fried and the officers distrusted the magnetic compass. The Attack on the Liberty
• The invention of the magnetic compass served as a great aid to navigation. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
• The instrument chiefly consists of telescope, magnetic compass and stabilizing apparatus.
• The new finding by Wikelski and colleagues suggests that the songbirds' magnetic compass is calibrated, perhaps on a daily basis, by visual cues.
• If this is simply a directional gyro it must be synchronised with the magnetic compass at frequent intervals.
• Your introduction to this kind may have come via a toy horseshoe magnet or a magnetic compass. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
• the needle of a magnetic compass points to the magnetic north pole