Sentence examples for in relation to a compass from inspiring English sources
Measurement of the rotation in relation to a compass yields the amount of vertical water movement.
Famous baseball hitter Babe Ruth was also left handed, and the term southpaw for a pitcher, also used in relation to left-handed boxers, comes from the pitcher's arm facing west being in a southern position in relation to the compass points of the baseball diamond.
Buildings were laid out with astronomical precision in relation to points of the compass, with emphasis on corners.
[ 35, 36] As summarized by Deirk Ullrich in relation to law in Canada and Germany: "human dignity is an indispensable compass in our continuing journey to promote and protect the rights and freedoms of the individual".
On each trial, the rat was lifted out of the bucket and placed in the center of the maze from (and also facing) one of four compass directions in relation to the LED landmark (N, S, E, W).
We have mentioned this already in relation to the use of the sun as a heading indicator in the map-and-compass and mosaic map models of navigation.
Its towers were a kind of compass, indicating where you were in relation to the rest of the city.
Procrastination is the bastard step-child of future-discounting (that tendency to devalue the future in relation to the present) and the use of pleasure as a quick-and-dirty compass.
Even if you have a GPS, it's still much easier to use a compass to quickly and effective gauge where you are in relation to the direction you're traveling.
The northern tip is usually marked with an N, but if for some reason it isn't, try to figure out which one is north by orienting your compass to the north or south in relation to the sun.
