magnetic compass

How To Use magnetic compass In A Sentence

• The aircraft's magnetic compass probably appeared to be working well, and setting up the astrocompass would have been a nuisance.
• The invention of the magnetic compass served as a great aid to navigation. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
• The most important instruments for flight included: a magnetic compass for the rudder man; a gyro-compass, altimeter, variometer, statoscope, inclinometers, and air & gas thermometers for the elevator man.
• 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 '' par - allel ray '' can be determined either by sighting to an object that is essentially at an in fi nite distance, or, lacking that, by using an accurate magnetic compass. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• It was a remarkable feat of navigation made without magnetic compasses. Times, Sunday Times
• The peloruses and magnetic compass came from the spares box, as did the small signal lights.
• 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
• To demonstrate the first of these behaviors, hold a magnetic compass near a wire conducting a DC current.
• Turns on to headings will be made at the standard rate, but using the stop-watch, not magnetic compass.