radio compass

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   a direction finder that gives a bearing by determining the direction of incoming radio signals

   Broaderdirection finder

Questions about radio compass

What does radio compass mean?

radio compass means "a direction finder that gives a bearing by determining the direction of incoming radio signals".

Is radio compass a common word?

radio 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.