magnetic bearing

American  

noun

Navigation.

1. the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.

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Example Sentences

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

The difference between this magnetic bearing and the compass bearing will be the required deviation, which you should compare with your Deviation Table.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

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 Draper, Ernest Gallaudet