relative bearing
Americannoun
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The initial display shows the relative bearing and distance of all in-range AIS-equipped vessels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a man assimilates the substance of every speech and judges its relative bearing upon the question.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 by Various
"In the clear understanding of details, and in the new perception of the relative bearing and importance of parts."
From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan
A slight movement on your part varies the form and outline and relative bearing of hill and vale, raises a pinnacle here, or there sinks a gorge precipitously steep.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
A passage which stood in the early editions is removed, the portrait which it referred to having been not that of the lady mentioned, but of a relative bearing the same name.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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