QUADRANTAL CORRECTOR


Meaning of QUADRANTAL CORRECTOR in English

Naut.

either of two soft-iron spheres attached to each side of a binnacle, intended to correct the compass deviation (quadrantal deviation) resulting from magnetism from ferrous metal in a ship. See diag. under binnacle 1 .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .