compass

Các nghĩa

1. la bàn

   A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

   [H]ow many Seas to our fore-fathers impaſſable, for want of the Compaſſe?

2. com-pa

   A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).

   to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

3. âm vực

   The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

   You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.

4. phạm vi, giới hạn

   Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.

   In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.

5. phạm vi

   Synonym of scope.

   formal

   the compass of his argument

6. vòng cung

   A curved circular form.

Dạng khác

• compasses plural