'Compass plane' definitions:
Definition of 'compass plane'
From: WordNet
noun
A plane with a flexible face that can plane concave or convex surfaces [syn: circular plane, compass plane]
Definition of 'Compass plane'
From: GCIDE
- Compass \Com"pass\ (k[u^]m"pas), n. [F. compas, fr. LL. compassus circle, prop., a stepping together; com- + passus pace, step. See Pace, Pass.]
- 1. A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. [1913 Webster]
- They fetched a compass of seven day's journey. --2 Kings iii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An inclosed space; an area; extent. [1913 Webster]
- Their wisdom . . . lies in a very narrow compass. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination. [1913 Webster]
- The compass of his argument. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within. [1913 Webster]
- In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) The range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument. [1913 Webster]
- You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction. [1913 Webster]
- He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A pair of compasses. [R.] See Compasses.
- To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 9. A circle; a continent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The tryne compas [the threefold world containing earth, sea, and heaven. --Skeat.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Azimuth compass. See under Azimuth.
- Beam compass. See under Beam.
- Compass card, the circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs.
- Compass dial, a small pocket compass fitted with a sundial to tell the hour of the day.
- Compass plane (Carp.), a plane, convex in the direction of its length on the under side, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork.
- Compass plant, Compass flower (Bot.), a plant of the American prairies (Silphium laciniatum), not unlike a small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present their edges north and south. [1913 Webster]
- Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass flower. --Longefellow.
- Compass saw, a saw with a narrow blade, which will cut in a curve; -- called also fret saw and keyhole saw.
- Compass timber (Shipbuilding), curved or crooked timber.
- Compass window (Arch.), a circular bay window or oriel window.
- Mariner's compass, a kind of compass used in navigation. It has two or more magnetic needles permanently attached to a card, which moves freely upon a pivot, and is read with reference to a mark on the box representing the ship's head. The card is divided into thirty-two points, called also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order to preserve its horizontal position.
- Surveyor's compass, an instrument used in surveying for measuring horizontal angles. See Circumferentor.
- Variation compass, a compass of delicate construction, used in observations on the variations of the needle.
- To fetch a compass, to make a circuit. [1913 Webster]