compass card

Meanings

nouncompass card (plural compass cards)

nauticalThe circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs.

nouncompass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north

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Hebrew לוּחַ הַמַּצְפֵּן

לוּחַ הַמַּצְפֵּן (luakh hamatspen)the circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass

Irish cairt chompáis

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