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Adjustment of the compass
Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Swinging a ship to every point of bearing, to note the variation or error of the needle upon each rhumb, due to the local attraction of the iron, or the mass, on each separate compass bearing. thus, in lat. 76° n. it was found to be +22° 30` with the head w.s.w., and—56° 30` on the opposite bearing, or e.n.e.
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Attraction, английский
- Initially named a circus act having striking effect on the audience thanks to mechanisms. (for example, cyclist running over high walls of a large "basket" without a bottom; a great number of automotive shows, etc). nowadays this is a long separ
- The power of drawing, or the principle by which all bodies mutually tend towards each other; the great agent in nature`s wonderful operations.—attraction of mountains, the deviating influence exercised on the plumb-line by the vicinity of high land. but exerting also a marvellous effect on all floating bodies, for every seaman knows that a ship stands inshore faster than she stands out, the distances being similar.
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Adjutant, английский
[from lat. adjuvo, to help.] a military assistant to field-officers. the term has been applied to an assistant captain of a fleet. it is indeed the duty performed by first lieutenants.
Adjust, to, английский
To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a chronometer. to set the frame of a ship.
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