magnetic bearing

How to use magnetic bearing in a sentence

• This bearing is only approximate, the magnetic bearing being nearly north and south.

  The Solomon Islands and Their Natives | H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy

• The Rock lies in a direction nearly south-west and north-east, magnetic bearing.

  An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House | Robert Stevenson

• "North 88 east," said Fuller to himself, as he read the magnetic bearing.

  Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. | Percy F. Westerman

• Apply the variation from the chart to get the magnetic bearing.

  Lectures in Navigation | Ernest Gallaudet Draper

• There is the true or astronomical bearing, and the magnetic bearing.

  The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth