Compass

1. n. A circle; a continent.
2. n. A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
3. n. An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.
4. n. An inclosed space; an area; extent.
5. n. Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.
6. n. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; — used with within.
7. n. The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.
8. n. An instrument for determining directions upon the earth’s surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
9. n. A pair of compasses.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.