magnetic bearing
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If Dwight Eisenhower's extraordinary hold on the American people were solely due to the fact that he has a warm personality and a magnetic bearing, we might have justifiable reservations .
From Time Magazine Archive
Starboard or port your helm until at the time calculated the reflection of the sight vane on the pelorus dial cuts on the proper magnetic bearing.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Steady the ship on this heading until the shadow from the pelorus vane at the proper L.A.T. cuts the circumference of the pelorus dial at the proper magnetic bearing.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
All being ready, secure the lubber's point of the pelorus at North and clamp the sight vane to the sun's magnetic bearing at the time you have figured to take the first heading.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
There is the true or astronomical bearing, and the magnetic bearing.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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