Sentence examples for directional compass from inspiring English sources

We determined directions to a signal by lining up the antenna beam with a precise directional compass (Suunto, Finland).

Five classes of environmental signals used by pigeons for home-finding have been identified: (1) The sun and (2) the geomagnetic field provide everywhere available directional (compass) information.

Throughout single-player, players may switch between the protagonists at will by means of a directional compass on the HUD.

They were well equipped for their journeys abroad, in large seagoing vessels steered by stern-post rudders and guided by the directional compass.

This 3rd century mechanically driven directional-compass vehicle (employing a differential gear) was again reproduced in several models for Tenji in 666, as recorded in the Nihon Shoki of 720.

One, simple and directional, is compass orientation; the second, complex and directed to a point, is true navigation, or goal orientation.

Yet the nature of magnetism and the directional properties of the compass remained mysteries, surrounded by myths, that attracted the curiosity of Dr. Gilbert and his associates.

Radio direction finder, also called Radio Compass, radio receiver and directional antenna system used to determine the direction of the source of a signal.

Although JH deficiency may be involved in the induction of directional flight and proper sun compass orientation, it is not required for their maintenance.

The DG-3000 will use two wheels and a differential-based system, instead of an electronic compass, for determining directional changes.

This polarized production coupled with the direct interaction of LPA with members of the gelsolin-villin family proteins implicates it in the cellular compass mechanism underlying directional cell migration.