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  • Thumbnail for Compass
    so east is 90°, south is 180°, and west is 270°. These numbers allow the compass to show azimuths or bearings which are commonly stated in degrees. If...
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    a secondary intercardinal direction. These eight shortest points in the compass rose shown to the right are: West-northwest (WNW) North-northwest (NNW)...
    27 KB (2,938 words) - 09:35, 11 September 2024
  • peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of social work. It was established in 1920 as The Compass and was renamed Social Work Journal in 1948. It obtained...
    2 KB (125 words) - 21:13, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the compass
    The compass is a magnetometer used for navigation and orientation that shows direction in regards to the geographic cardinal points. The structure of...
    56 KB (7,318 words) - 16:35, 19 September 2024
  • London School of Economics, writing for the Journal of Social Philosophy in 1996, opined that the compass is a positive tool that provides clarity in...
    13 KB (1,401 words) - 15:46, 29 August 2024
  • The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized...
    4 KB (273 words) - 21:36, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brett Kissel
    Were That Song (2017), Now or Never (2020), What Is Life? (2021), and The Compass Project (2023). Kissel was born in St. Paul, Alberta, the son of Brenda...
    41 KB (2,241 words) - 17:55, 14 October 2024
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    symbols of ancient China's advanced science and technology. They are the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. These four inventions had a profound...
    31 KB (3,613 words) - 11:30, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burt's solar compass
    angle due to the time of day. These angles are set on the compass for a chosen time of day, the compass base is set up level using the spirit levels provided...
    28 KB (3,555 words) - 13:05, 21 August 2024
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    J. Zajac; F. Žáček (2006). "Reinstallation of the COMPASS-D tokamak in IPP ASCR". Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. 56 (2): 125–137. Bibcode:2006CzJPh...
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  • Thumbnail for Weather vane
    the traditional cockerel design with letters indicating the points of the compass. Other common motifs include ships, arrows, and horses. Not all wind...
    17 KB (1,737 words) - 16:23, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Heading (navigation)
    In navigation, the heading of a vessel or aircraft is the compass direction in which the craft's bow or nose is pointed. Note that the heading may not...
    9 KB (1,215 words) - 17:25, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Admiralty Compass Observatory
    Accuracy'. The observatory was administered by the Compass Branch (1842–1917), later known as the Compass Department (1917–1968) and Compass Directorate...
    9 KB (1,042 words) - 08:23, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Improvisational theatre
    improvisers at The Compass Players in Chicago, which led to The Second City. Her son, Paul Sills, along with David Shepherd, started The Compass Players. Following...
    42 KB (5,165 words) - 22:43, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Straightedge and compass construction
    to be infinite in length, have only one edge, and no markings on it. The compass is assumed to have no maximum or minimum radius, and is assumed to "collapse"...
    36 KB (4,796 words) - 02:37, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world
    Yemeni Sultan and astronomer al-Malik al-Ashraf described the use of the compass as a "Qibla indicator" to find the direction to Mecca. In a treatise...
    40 KB (4,687 words) - 11:37, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Massaemett Mountain
    and offers views from multiple windows facing the four directions of the compass. From the tower, views include the Berkshires and Taconic Mountains to...
    9 KB (1,049 words) - 18:30, 9 March 2024
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    objection was to the compass, a traditional tool for choosing favorable locations for property or burials. Critics point out that the compass degrees are often...
    69 KB (7,809 words) - 04:25, 30 August 2024
  • within the compass of a single critical essay. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. The journal has been...
    4 KB (310 words) - 16:35, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Euclidean distance
    which were considered "equal". The notion of distance is inherent in the compass tool used to draw a circle, whose points all have the same distance from...
    25 KB (3,187 words) - 10:11, 23 August 2024
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