magnetic compass

常见例句

A cell in the eye may be worth two in the beak, at least when it comes to a migratory bird’s magnetic compass.
鳥的眼睛中的細胞可能會是鳥嘴裡細胞價值的兩倍，至少儅談到候鳥的磁性羅磐來說是這樣。
"They also have a magnetic compass that enables them to navigate thousands of kilometres, even at night, " says Robson.
“它們還有磁性羅磐使它們能夠航行成千上萬裡，即使在晚上。” 羅佈森說。
And they made use of a magnetic compass at least a century before the first reference to it appeared elsewhere.
而他們對於指南針的使用比其他地方有史料記載的出現至少早1個世紀。

A compass is a device containing a metal object that points toward the magnetic north pole.

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They moved often, living near Byron Bay, a beachfront community in New South Wales, and on Magnetic Island, a tiny pile of rock that Captain Cook believed had magnetic properties that distorted his compass readings.
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