Usually means: Tool for navigation using Earth's magnetism.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. magnetic compass: Merriam-Webster
  2. magnetic compass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. magnetic compass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. magnetic compass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. magnetic compass: Vocabulary.com
  6. magnetic compass: Wordnik
  7. magnetic compass: Wiktionary
  8. magnetic compass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. magnetic compass: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. magnetic compass: Dictionary.com
  11. Magnetic Compass, Magnetic compass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. magnetic compass: Rhymezone
  13. magnetic compass: FreeDictionary.org
  14. magnetic compass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. magnetic compass: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnetic compass: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. magnetic compass: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (magnetic compass)

noun:  (military, nautical) An instrument containing a freely suspended magnetic element which displays the direction of the horizontal component of the Earth’s magnetic field at the point of observation.
noun:  A supposed organ, in some animals, that allows then to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field.

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