Compass vs Quadrant - What's the difference?
compass | quadrant |
A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
* John Locke
A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A space within limits; area.
* 1763 , M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:
* Addison
* 1913 ,
(obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.
Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within .
* Sir J. Davies
Scope.
* Wordsworth
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:
* 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe),
(obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
* Bible, 2 Kings iii. 9
* Shakespeare
To surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 5 scene 1
To go about or round entirely; to traverse.
(dated) To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
* 1763 , Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius; or, an essay on education , translated by M. Nugent, page 117:
* 1816 , Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher , volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:
* 1857 , Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: from the Restoration of King Charles the Second to the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht in the Reign of Queen Anne , page 657:
* 1921 November 23, The New Republic , volume 28, number 364, page 2:
(dated) To plot; to scheme (against someone).
* 1600', ''The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee'', published in '''1809 , by R. Bagshaw, in ''Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials , volume 1, page 1403–04:
* 1794' November 1, ''Speech of Mr. Erskine in Behalf of Hardy'', published in '''1884 , by Chauncey Allen Goodrich, in ''Select British Eloquence , page 719:
* 1915 , The Wireless Age , volume 2, page 580:
(obsolete) In a circuit; round about.
* 1658 , (w), Urne-Burial , Penguin (2005), ISBN 9780141023915, page 9:
One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
(mathematics) The four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
(geometry) One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
(nautical) A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
As nouns the difference between compass and quadrant
is that compass is a magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north) while quadrant is one of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.As a verb compass
is to surround; to encircle; to environ; to stretch round.As an adverb compass
is in a circuit; round about.compass
English
(wikipedia compass)Noun
(es)- He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.
- to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please
- You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass .
- 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 .
- Their wisdom lies in a very narrow compass .
- Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass .
- within the compass of an encircling wall
- In two hundred years before (I speak within compass ), no such commission had been executed.
- the compass of his argument
- There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.
- How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
- They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.
- This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass .
Synonyms
* (magnetic direction finder) magnetic compass * (device used to draw circular curves) pair of compassesHyponyms
* (pair of compasses) beam compassDerived terms
* beam compass * bow compass * compass card * compass error * compass needle * compass plant * compass point * compass rose * compass swing * gyrocompass * magnetic compass * mariner's compass * moral compass * pair of compasses * radio compass * telltale compass (pair of compasses) * beam compassVerb
(es)- Now all the blessings
- Of a glad father compass thee about!
- [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.
- [...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.
- [...] and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful.
- The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.
- That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
- But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, [...]
- The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.
Quotations
* *: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.Synonyms
* (surround) encircle, environ, surround * (go about or around entirely) cover, traverse * (accomplish) accomplish, achieve, attain, gain, get to, reach * conspire, plot, schemeAdverb
(en adverb)- Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances,
