A compass bearing is the direction taken from a magnetic needle. Take a compass bearing.
Magnetic north is not true north, and the difference must be allowed for on a map. A compass bearing is useless next to a car, a phone or anything else with iron in it.
1nouncompass bearingThe direction taken from a magnetic needle.
“He took a compass bearing and walked into the fog.”
compass bearing is a direction.
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