1. Measurement

2. Business and organizations

3. Nature

4. Science and technology
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5. Television

6. Music and entertainment

7. Other uses

8. See also

A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.

Compass may also refer to:

Measurement

• Compass calipers, a tool to measure distances on a chart or map
• Compass (drawing tool), a tool to inscribe circles and arcs
• Compass (architecture), a curved circular form

Business and organizations

• Compass (think tank), a British left-wing political think tank
• Compass Airlines (Australia), operated 1990–1993
• Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines
• Compass Group, a British food-service and facilities-management company
• Compass International Pictures, an American film-distribution company
• Project Compass, a British programme to help ex-service personnel
• Massachusetts Computer Associates, also known as COMPASS

Nature

• Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a kind of sunflower
• Compass cactus or barrel cactus, members of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus

Science and technology

Navigation

• Brunton compass, type of precision magnetic compass
• Breithaupt compass or Geological compass
• Hand compass, any compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use
• Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications
• An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1
• Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications

Traffic

• COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada
• Compass Card (San Diego), a contactless smart card used for public transit in San Diego, California
• Compass Card (TransLink), an electronic payment system used for public transit in Vancouver, Canada

Other

• COMPASS experiment or Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy, a particle physics experiment at CERN
• Compass Project is the former name of Elasticsearch, a Java search engine framework
• COMPASS or COMPrehensive ASSembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
• Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
• Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
• COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
• An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

Television

• Compass (Australian TV program), a 1988 Australian news-documentary television program
• Compass (1965 TV program), a 1965–1966 Canadian documentary television program (on CBC Television from 1965 to 1966)
• Compass (1986 TV program), a 1986 local Canadian news television program that focuses on Prince Edward Island
• Compass (Falling Skies), an episode of the American television drama series Falling Skies

Music and entertainment

• Compass (range) of a voice or musical instrument
• Compass Records, an independent record label founded in 1995
• Compass Players (or Compass Theater), a 1950s improvised cabaret revue in Chicago, Illinois
• Compass (band), a Chinese rock band
• Compass (Assemblage 23 album), 2009
• Compass (Jamie Lidell album), 2010
• Compass (Mark Vincent album), 2010
  • Compass (Mark Vincent song), 2010 (later recorded by Didrik Solli-Tangen, and Sam Bailey)
• Compass (Joshua Redman album), 2013
• Compass (Lady Antebellum song), 2013
• Compass, a song by Jonathan Thulin from the album Science Fiction
• Compass, a song by Rascal Flatts from the album Rewind
• Compass, a song by Zella Day from the album Kicker

Other uses

• Compass (law), to purpose (or intend) something
• Compass (novel), a 2015 novel by Mathias Enard
• The Daily Compass, a 1949–1952 New York City, New York, newspaper
• Operation Compass, a World War II military operation in the North African campaign
• Political compass, a multi-axis model used to label or organize political thought
• Compass (Hudson), a 2005 public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
• Compass (Simpson), a 2003 public art work by American artist Gail Simpson
• Compass, Pennsylvania

See also

• Compas (disambiguation)

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