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flinders bar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

Syllables
flinder-s bar
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube typically on the fore side of a compass binnacle, used to counteract the horizontal effect of vertical magnetism induced by the Earth's magnetic field in the steel of a ship, an effect which varies with latitude.

Etymology

Named after the English navigator Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).

Inflected Forms

Flinders bars (plural)

Questions

What does flinders bar mean?
A vertical soft iron bar placed in a tube typically on the fore side of a compass binnacle, used to counteract the horizontal effect of vertical magnetism induced by the Earth's magnetic field in the steel of a ship, an effect which varies with latitude.
Where does flinders bar come from?
Named after the English navigator Matthew Flinders (1774-1814).

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