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See: blockade, boundary, caliber, capacity, circumscribe, comprehend, demarcate, embrace, enclose, enclosure, encompass, envelop, extent, frontier, gamut, hedge, include, maximum, measurement, outline, periphery, province, purview, range, region, scope, space TO COMPASS. To imagine; to contrive.
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| Gurney, formerly a yacht designer and now a writer living in Suffolk, England, has written a richly detailed history of the most important navigational device of all time--the magnetic compass. The battery-powered Skyseeker has an on-board Global Positioning System and a magnetic compass, along with a pan-tilt camera that can give commanders a real-time view of crime scenes, said sheriff's Cmdr. 95) by Alan Gurney provides an eye-opening survey of the history of the magnetic compass, which for a thousand years was the only instrument sailors used for navigation. |
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