Sentence examples for magnetic compass from inspiring English sources
noun
An instrument containing a freely suspended magnetic element which displays the direction of the horizontal component of the Earth's magnetic field at the point of observation.
Magnetic compass needles and bar magnets are examples of macroscopic magnetic dipoles.
The magnetic compass, then, helps them get the turns right.
The $59.95 Star Navigator uses a conventional magnetic compass.
The magnetic compass spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe.
The magnetic compass was brought to the West by Arab traders in the 12th century ce.
I always carry a small magnetic compass when I visit New York or any other large city.
Muslim communities got credit for the development of algebra and the magnetic compass and for "elegant calligraphy".
And they made use of a magnetic compass at least a century before the first reference to it appeared elsewhere.
Despite its acknowledged value, the magnetic compass long remained a fragile, troublesome, and unreliable instrument, subject to mysterious disturbances.
Faraday visualized a magnetic field as composed of many lines of induction, along which a small magnetic compass would point.
Francis Bacon once commented on the "obscure and inglorious origins" of the magnetic compass, gunpowder, and paper and printmaking, three inventions that he claimed transformed civilization.
