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
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
I am the only near relative bearing the Crompton name.
From The Cromptons by Holmes, Mary Jane
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
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
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