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单词 flinders bar
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Flinders bar


noun Navigation.

a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.

Origin of Flinders bar

First recorded in 1880–85; named after M. Flinders

Words nearby Flinders bar

flim, flimflam, flimsy, flinch, flinders, Flinders bar, Flinders grass, Flinders Island, Flinders Range, fling, flinger
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British Dictionary definitions for Flinders bar

Flinders bar
/ (ˈflɪndəz) /

noun

nautical a bar of soft iron mounted on a binnacle to compensate for local magnetism causing error to the compass

Word Origin for Flinders bar

C19: named after Matthew Flinders (died 1814), English navigator
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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