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Flinders bar

Flin·ders bar [ flíndərz baar ] (plural Flin·ders bars)


noun 
Definition:
 
device to prevent compass error: a bar of soft iron mounted under a compass to compensate for local magnetism and prevent it affecting the reading of the compass

[After Matthew Flinders]
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