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compass error

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 244 words | Copyright

compass error, the amount by which the magnetic compass direction differs from the true direction, the sum of variation and deviation. It is named east or west according to whether the compass points to the right or left of the true direction.

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