Compass (disambiguation)
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A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.
Compass may also refer to:
Navigation
- Dividers, a tool to measure distance on a chart
Graphical arts
- Compass (drawing tool), a tool to draw circles and arcs
- Compass (architecture), a curved circular form
Business and organizations
- Compass (think tank), a UK left-wing political think tank
- Compass Airlines (Australia), one of two Australian airlines
- Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines
- Compass Group, a UK food service company
- Compass International Pictures a film distribution company
- Project Compass a UK based ex-services homeless programme
- Compass (real estate), a technology startup company based in New York City
- Compass Adjuster, service performed by a technician to adjust and compensate the Magnetic Compass, of ship and aircraft, correcting its cardinal points.
Nature
- Compass Plant, also Compass Flower, common names for Silphium laciniatum, a kind of sunflower
- Compass cactus, otherwise known as Barrel cactus
Science and technology
- Brunton compass, type of precision compass
- Compass navigation system, a Chinese satellite navigation system
- COMPASS experiment, a particle physics experiment at CERN
- Compass Project, a Java search engine framework
- COMPASS, Comprehensive Assembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
- COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada
- Compass Card (San Diego), a contactless smart card used for public transit in San Diego, California
- Compass Card (TransLink), an electronic payment system used for public transit in Vancouver, Canada
- Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
- Hand compass, any compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use
- Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications
- Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
- COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
- An alternative name of Beidou Navigation Satellite System
Television
- Compass (TV program), an Australian news-documentary series
- Compass (Canadian TV series), a 1950s Canadian documentary series
- CBC News: Compass, the local news program on Prince Edward Island
- Compass (Falling Skies), an episode of the American television drama series Falling Skies
Music and entertainment
- Compass Records, an independent record label founded in 1995
- Compass Players (or Compass Theater), a 1950s improvised cabaret revue in Chicago, Illinois
- Compass (Assemblage 23 album), 2009
- Compass (Jamie Lidell album), 2010
- "Compass" (Mark Vincent song), 2010 (later recorded by Didrik Solli-Tangen, and Sam Bailey)
- "Compass" (Lady Antebellum song), 2013
- Compass (Zella Day song) track 12 of Kicker (album) by Zella Day
Other uses
- Compass (law), to purpose (or intend) something
- The Daily Compass, a 1949–1952 New York City, New York, newspaper
- Operation Compass, a World War II military operation in the North African campaign
- Political compass, a multi-axis model used to label or organize political thought
- Compass (Hudson), a 2005 public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
- Compass (Simpson), a 2003 public art work by American artist Gail Simpson
See also
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