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true north

noun

, Navigation, Surveying.
  1. the direction of the north pole from a given point.


true north

noun

  1. the direction from any point along a meridian towards the North Pole Also calledgeographic north Compare magnetic north


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If that is not True North, then we haven't got much worth saving.

I am here to correct and calibrate your morale compasses to true north.

Alaska-based scheduler Robyn Engibous, billed to True North L'Attitudes, earned just over $5,400.

Will they mimic the GOP and move right, too, or will they tack left (their True North, as it were)?

In 1905, Elmer Sperry invented his gyroscopic compass which is unaffected by terrestrial magnetism and points to the true north.

The trend of the island is about eleven degrees from true north; the axis lying north by east to south by west.

By amplitudes, east and west could be fixed when the variation of the compass from true north and south was doubtful.

Neither could I object to the Swami's insistence that he sit with his back to the true North.

He is perilously dependent on the oscillations of a living needle, imagination, that never points to the true north.

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