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Definition of boussole in French English dictionary
- {n} compass
Hikers need to carry a compass with them to find their way through the woods.
-Les randonneurs doivent emporter une boussole avec eux pour trouver leur chemin à travers les bois.
Compasses point north.
-Les boussoles pointent vers le nord.
- A space within limits; area
In going up the Missisippi , we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.
- A pair of compasses (a device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper)
- To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain
- In a circuit; round about
Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances,.
- To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round
- {v} to surround, grasp, obtain, effect, accomplish
- navigational instrument for finding directions
- the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
- To purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot
- A devise for detecting the earth’s magnetic field and aligning with the lines of force / A devise for laying out a specific distance or marking an arc / a unit of measure, usually defined as 6 feet
- To go about or round entirely; to traverse
- Navigation instrument, either magnetic (showing magnetic north) or gyro (showing true north)
- An instrument used for drawing circles, describing circles, or measuring distances Consists of two hinged, movable legs
- Compasses are a hinged V-shaped instrument that you use for drawing circles. In navigation or surveying, the chief device for direction finding on the Earth's surface. Compasses may operate on magnetic or gyroscopic (see gyroscope) principles or by determining the direction of the Sun or a s(Tarih) The oldest and most familiar type is the magnetic compass, used in different forms in aircraft, ships, and land vehicles and by surveyors. Magnetic compasses work as they do because the Earth itself is a magnet with a north-south field (see geomagnetic field) that causes freely moving magnets to align themselves with the field
- bring about; accomplish; "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass"
- An instrument used to determine the direction of magnetic north (See Bearing and Azimuth)
- {i} instrument that indicates magnetic north; boundary, limit
- A pair of compasses
- An instrument whose magnetized metal needle aligns itself with the magnetic fields of the earth This causes one end of the needle to point north Mariners used this information to navigate the ship The Chinese are said to have invented the first compass over 2000 years ago See Lodestone
- boussole de marine
- {n} mariner's compass
- boussole de poche
- {n} pocket compass
- perdre la boussole
- be all at sea; go haywire