BEAMCOMPASS

Beam compass

A beam compass is a compass with a beam and sliding sockets or cursors for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses. The instrument can be as a whole, or made on the spot with individual sockets and any suitable beam.

The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Beam compass
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

beam compass

Noun

  1. a device for creating circular curves, which has a central pivot pin, and an outer curb scribing point, connected by a horizontal beam


The above text is a snippet from Wiktionary: beam compass
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Need help with a clue?
Try your search in the crossword dictionary!