Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

quadrantal corrector

American  

noun

Nautical.

  1. either of two soft-iron spheres attached to each side of a binnacle, intended to correct the compass deviation quadrantaldeviation resulting from magnetism from ferrous metal in a ship.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "quadrantal corrector" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com