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The errors of the compass in an iron ship are mainly the semicircular error and the quadrantal error.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

I suggested to Monsieur Pin and others a quadrantal gate, turning on a pivot, and lifted by a lever like a pump-handle, aided by a windlass and cord, if necessary.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

The immensely-too-large magnets used formerly as compass needles, through a mistaken notion, apparently, that more directive force would be got by their means, rendered the quadrantal adjustment an impossibility.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

When the quadrantal error has once been annulled it is always zero, for as the induced magnetism changes, so does that of the spheres, and the adjustment remains good.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

The light talent weighed one quadrantal, according to the estimate of the Chaldæans, i. e.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max