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compass card

the circular card mounted on a free pivot inside a compass and marked with the points of direction and, often, the degrees of the circle

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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