uncorrect
Americanverb (used with object)
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to convert (a true course) into a magnetic course.
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to convert (a magnetic course) into a compass course.
Etymology
Origin of uncorrect
Example Sentences
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As he got more comfortable with his surroundings, hispolitically uncorrect sarcastic remarks seemed to flow like wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best apology I can make for it, and the truest, is only this, that you have, since that time, received with applause, as bad, and as uncorrect plays from other men.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Hence, many Pieces were taken down in Short-hand, and imperfectly copied xxxviii by Ear, from a Representation: Others were printed from piece-meal Parts, surreptitiously obtain’d from the Theatres, uncorrect, and without the Poet’s Knowledge.
From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.
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