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boxing the compass
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boxing the compass [′bäks·iŋthə ′käm·pəs]
(navigation)
In nautical practice, calling out in sequence the names of the points (and sometimes the half and quarter points) indicated by the compass of a maneuvering vessel.


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This connecting seam, which runs roughly east-southeast beneath southern Georgia, probably first formed 300 million years ago when the drifting African and North American continents collided to form the supercontinent Pangea, says Douglas Nelson, an associate researcher for the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.
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