Compass (disambiguation)
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Compass may refer to one of the following.
- Compass, a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.
- Compass (drafting) or (pair of) compasses, a tool to draw circles and arcs and a symbol of Freemasonry.
- CBC Compass is the former name of CBC News at Six: Prince Edward Island
- Radio compass is used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications.
- Compass (architecture), a curve (or bent) circular form; the term used in carpentry, architecture, and shipbuilding.
- Compass (religion) gives the praying person the direction: to the Qiblih for the Bahá'ís and to Mecca for Muslims.
- Compass plant of the American prairies similar to a little sunflower.
- COMPASS is an abbreviation for COMPrehensive ASSembler.
- To compass (in law terminology) is to purpose (or intend) something.
- Compass Records is a contemporary record label
- Compass Airlines (Australia), the name of two Australian airlines.
- Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines
- compass is a UK left-wing political think tank
- GRiD Compass is the first laptop, which was manufactured by the company GRiD_Systems_Corp.
- Compass (consulting) is a global fact-based consulting company
- Compass International Pictures a short lived film distribution company.
- Compass Group is a UK food service company.