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Flinders bars

Flinders bars is the plural of Flinders bar.

Meaning of Flinders bar

Noun

Flinders bar (plural Flinders bars)

  1. 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.

Questions about Flinders bars

What is Flinders bars the plural of?
Flinders bars is the plural of Flinders bar.

Words near Flinders bars in the dictionary

  1. flindering
  2. flindermice
  3. flindermouse
  4. flinders
  5. Flinders bar
  6. Flinders bars
  7. Flinders grass
  8. Flinders grasses
  9. Flinders Island
  10. Flinders Ranges
  11. flindersia

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