Flinders bar

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube typically on the fore side of a compass binnacle, used to counteract the horizontal effect of vertical magnetism induced by the Earth's magnetic field in the steel of a ship, an effect which varies with latitude.

词形变化

Flinders bars plural

词源

Named after the English navigator Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).
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