mariner's compass

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscompass card

   Broadermagnetic compass

Questions about mariner's compass

What does mariner's compass mean?

mariner's compass 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 mariner's compass?

Close synonyms include compass card. 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 mariner's compass a common word?

mariner's compass 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.