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Image:Zirkel.jpg|thumb|Compasses for drawing and cutting

Pronunciation
AHD|kŭmʹp�s, IPA|/�k�m.p�s/, SAMPA|/kVm.p@s/
audio|en-us-compass.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic north).
2. A pair of compasses (a device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper).
3. obsolete A space within limits; area.

#* 1763, M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47.
#** In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.

1. scope

#* 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 8.
#*: there is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subjectr, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.

Derived terms
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beam compass
bow compass
compass card
compass error
compass plant
compass point
compass rose
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compass swing
gyrocompass
magnetic compass
mariner�s compass
pair of compasses
radio compass
telltale compass
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Translations
trans-top|navigational compass
Bulgarian: t-|bg|компа�|m|trkompas|scCyrl
Croatian: t-|hr|kompas|m
Czech: t-|cs|kompas|m, t-|cs|buzola|f
Danish: t-|da|kompas|c
Dutch: t+|nl|kompas|n
Esperanto: t-|eo|kompaso|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: t-|et|kompass
Finnish: t+|fi|kompassi
French: t-|fr|boussole|f
Frisian: kompas n
German: t+|de|Kompass|m
Greek: να��ική ��ξί� (navtikí pyxís) f
Hebrew: �צפ� (matzpen) m
Hungarian: t-|hu|iránytű
Indonesian: t+|id|kompas|xs=Indonesian
Italian: t+|it|bussola|f
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Japanese: ���� (�������, h�i-jíshaku), ��� (�����, rashimbán)
Kurdish: KUchar|پ�شا�دار, KUchar|�ب����ا���
Norwegian: t-|no|kompass|c
Polish: t+|pl|kompas|m
Portuguese: t-|pt|bússola|f
Romanian: t-|ro|busol�|f
Russian: компа� (kómpas) m, б���ол� (bussól�) f
Serbian: компа� (kompas) m
Slovak: t-|sk|kompas|m
Slovene: t+|sl|kompas|m
Spanish: t+|es|brújula|f
Swedish: t+|sv|kompass|c
Telugu: ది��స��ి (diksoochi)
Turkish: t-|tr|pusula
Ukrainian: б��ол� (busólja) m
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trans-top|pair of compasses
See pair of compasses
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trans-top|area
Dutch: t-|nl|omvang|m, t-|nl|bereik|n
French: t+|fr|portée|f, t-|fr|étendue|f
German: t+|de|Umfang|m, t-|de|Umkreis|m
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Russian: об��м (ob�jóm) m, к��г (krug) m, ок��жно��� (okrúžnost�) f
Portuguese: t-|pt|]área|f, t-|pt|âmbito|m, t-|pt|alcance|m
Spanish: t+|es|área|f, t-|es|ámbito|m, t-|es|alcance|m
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trans-top|scope
Portuguese: t+|pt|limite|m
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Verb
en-verb|compass|es

1. To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
2. To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
3. rfv-sense To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
4. rfv-sense To plot; to scheme (against someone).

Synonyms
italbrac|surround: encircle, environ, surround
italbrac|go about or around entirely: cover, traverse
italbrac|accomplish: accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reach
italbrac|plot (against someone): conspire, plot, scheme

Translations
trans-top|surround
Dutch: t-|nl|beslaan, t+|nl|omvatten
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trans-top|go about or round entirely
Dutch: t-|nl|doorkruisen, t-|nl|omzwerven
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trans-top|accomplish
Dutch: t+|nl|bereiken
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trans-top|plot
Dutch: t-|nl|samenzweren (tegen)
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Adverb
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1. obsolete In a circuit; round about.

#*1658, Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances � Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 9)

References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913

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