Compass (disambiguation)

A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.

Compass may also refer to:

Measurement

Art and entertainment

Music

Television

Business and organizations

Nature

  • Compass cactus or barrel cactus, members of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus
  • Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a kind of sunflower

Publications

Science and technology

  • Brunton compass, type of precision magnetic compass
  • Breithaupt compass or Geological compass
  • Hand compass, any compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use
  • Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications
  • An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

Traffic

  • Compass Card (San Diego), a contactless smart card used for public transit in San Diego, California
  • Compass Card (TransLink), an electronic payment system used for public transit in Vancouver, Canada
  • COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada

Other

  • COMPASS or COMPrehensive ASSembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
  • COMPASS experiment or Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy, a particle physics experiment at CERN
  • COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
  • Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
  • Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
  • Compass Project is the former name of Elasticsearch, a Java search engine framework
  • An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

Other uses

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See also

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