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PRONUNCIATION OF BEAM COMPASS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEAM COMPASS

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determiner
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Beam compass is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BEAM COMPASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Beam compass

A beam compass is a compass with a beam and sliding sockets or cursors for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses. The instrument can be as a whole, or made on the spot with individual sockets and any suitable beam.

Definition of beam compass in the English dictionary

The definition of beam compass in the dictionary is an instrument for drawing large circles or arcs, consisting of a horizontal beam along which two vertical legs slide Also called: trammel.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEAM COMPASS

beam
beam aerial
beam antenna
beam balance
beam engine
beam hole
beam rider
beam riding
beam splitter
beam-ends
beamed
beamer
beamily
beaming
beamingly
beamish
beamishly
beamless
beamlet
beamlike

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEAM COMPASS

astrocompass
bow compass
bow-spring compass
box the compass
bypass
come to pass
compass
earth inductor compass
encompass
gyrocompass
inductor compass
magnetic compass
mariner´s compass
overpass
pass
prismatic compass
radio compass
surpass
trespass
underpass

Synonyms and antonyms of beam compass in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «beam compass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEAM COMPASS

Find out the translation of beam compass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beam compass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beam compass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

梁指南针
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

compás de vara
570 millions of speakers

English

beam compass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

किरण कम्पास
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

بوصلة شعاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

компас света
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bússola feixe
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মরীচি কম্পাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

boussole de faisceau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kompas rasuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Strahl Kompass
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ビームコンパス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빔 나침반
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kompas beam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

la bàn chùm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பீம் திசைகாட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुळई कम्पास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pusula
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bussola fascio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kompas belka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

компас світла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

busola fascicul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πυξίδα πορείας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

balk kompas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beam kompass
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bjelke kompass
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beam compass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAM COMPASS»

The term «beam compass» is used very little and occupies the 166.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAM COMPASS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beam compass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEAM COMPASS»

Discover the use of beam compass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beam compass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Technical Drawing
It takes over where the ordinary compass leaves off and eliminates the beam compass. Curva Ajustable Este instrumento tiene un arco con seguro que se usa para dibujar cualquier radio desde 6.75" hasta 200" (17 cm a 500 cm). Se puede  ...
David L. Goetsch, 2004
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Popular Mechanics
Of course, large railroads are always prepared for such emergencies. WINDING LONG SPRINGS A SHORT=ORDER BEAM COMPASS A friend of mine, having need of a beam compass in a land where there was none, Beam Compass Made  ...
3
Basic Fixture Design
Comparison of a common bow compass and a "beam compass." The beam which makes up the connecting member of this type of compass can be several feet long. spacecraft design, then a "sweep" may have to be your tool of preference.
Paul D. Q. Campbell, 1994
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Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
Templates Compass Beam Compasses Low-Budget Beam Compass Beam Compass With Pencilholder French Curve Flexible Curve CHAPTER ONEWHAT ISPERSPECTIVE? Before you can draw anything, you need. Templates Ellipse ...
Jason Cheeseman-Meyer, 2007
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Working Alone
I use trammel points to set up a beam compass. Before making the beam compass, I remove the steel point from one of my trammels and replace it with a pencil. The exact length of this beam compass is not important, but 1 usually make it ...
John Carroll, 2003
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Cassell's cyclopaedia of mechanics: containing receipts, ...
A beam compass is used for the purpose of drawing circles or arcs of longer radins than can be taken in by the ordinary bow compass. A beam compass usually consists of a llat wooden beam fitted with two movable trammel heads such as ...
Paul Nooncree Hasluck, 1904
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Compass: Thumb Compass, Boxing the Compass, Magnetic ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Compass.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2010
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Pantologia: a new cabinet cyclopaedia, comprehending a ...
For this purpose, to the meridian of a globe properly divided, he adapts a piece of a like meridian, called the beam-compass, divided in the same manner, and sliding under the meridian : to these circles, and to five minutes of their degrees, are ...
9
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...
For this purpose, to the meridian of a globe properly divided, he adapts a piece of a like meridian, called the beam-compass, divided in the same manner, ami sliding under the meridian : to these circles^und to five minutes of their degrees, are ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, 1813
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
With the same beam compass, unaltered, I laid off, from a to e, the chord of 60°, making also a fine point. With the chord of 30°, a e was bisected in c. Now, one point of the beam compass, containing 60°, was fixed in c ; and with the other was ...
David Brewster, 1832

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEAM COMPASS»

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Local artists flock to Grand Rapids' ArtPrize
"The Garden of Future Dreams" is an installation with garden implements, a satellite dish painted as a mandala, and a beam compass that ... «The Detroit News, Sep 14»
2
Painted Wallpaper Headboard
Good to Know: To make your own beam compass, duct tape a pencil to one end of a yardstick with the point about 1/2 an inch past the edge. «RisMedia.com, Oct 12»
3
Plastic Bag Mandalas
I also use a beam compass for drawing large circles, various Exacto knives and a reducing glass (the opposite of a magnifying glass) for ... «Green Muze, Feb 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Beam compass [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/beam-compass>. Apr 2024 ».
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