Compass (disambiguation)

A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.

Compass may also refer to:

Measurement

• Compass calipers, a tool to measure distances on a chart or map
• Compass (drawing tool), a tool to inscribe circles and arcs
• Compass (architecture), a curve (or bent) circular form

Business and organizations

• Compass (think tank), a British left-wing political think tank
• Compass Airlines (Australia), operated 1990–1993
• Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines
• Compass Group, a British food-service and facilities-management company
• Compass International Pictures an American film-distribution company
• Project Compass a British programme to help ex-service personnel

Nature

• Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a kind of sunflower
• Compass cactus or barrel cactus, members of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus

Science and technology

• Brunton compass, type of precision compass
• Compass navigation system, a Chinese satellite navigation system
• COMPASS experiment, a particle physics experiment at CERN
• Compass Project is the former name of Elasticsearch, a Java search engine framework
• Compass, an open-source CSS Authoring Framework written in Ruby
• COMPASS, Comprehensive Assembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
• COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada
• Compass Card (San Diego), a contactless smart card used for public transit in San Diego, California
• Compass Card (TransLink), an electronic payment system used for public transit in Vancouver, Canada
• Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
• Hand compass, any compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use
• Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications
• Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
• COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
• An alternative name of Beidou Navigation Satellite System

Television

• Compass (TV program), an Australian news-documentary series
• Compass (Canadian TV series), a 1950s Canadian documentary series
• CBC News: Compass, the local news program on Prince Edward Island
• Compass (Falling Skies), an episode of the American television drama series Falling Skies

Music and entertainment

• Compass Records, an independent record label founded in 1995
• Compass Players (or Compass Theater), a 1950s improvised cabaret revue in Chicago, Illinois
• Compass (Assemblage 23 album), 2009
• Compass (Jamie Lidell album), 2010
• Compass (Mark Vincent album), 2010
  • "Compass" (Mark Vincent song), 2010 (later recorded by Didrik Solli-Tangen, and Sam Bailey)
• "Compass" (Lady Antebellum song), 2013
• Compass (Zella Day song) track 12 of Kicker (album) by Zella Day

Other uses

• Compass (law), to purpose (or intend) something
• The Daily Compass, a 1949–1952 New York City, New York, newspaper
• Operation Compass, a World War II military operation in the North African campaign
• Political compass, a multi-axis model used to label or organize political thought
• Compass (Hudson), a 2005 public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
• Compass (Simpson), a 2003 public art work by American artist Gail Simpson

See also

• Compas (disambiguation)