relative bearing

American  

noun

Navigation.

1. the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.

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Example Sentences

The initial display shows the relative bearing and distance of all in-range AIS-equipped vessels.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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

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

I am the only near relative bearing the Crompton name.

From The Cromptons by Holmes, Mary Jane