compass card

1. 1.

   compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north

   Synonymsmariner's compass

   Broadermagnetic compass

Questions about compass card

What does compass card mean?

compass card means "compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north".

What is another word for compass card?

Close synonyms include mariner's compass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compass card a common word?

compass card is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.