Compass (architecture)

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In carpentry, architecture, and shipbuilding, a compass is a curved circular form.{{cite book|author=Dell Upton|title=Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsaWZLST0x8C&pg=PA261|year=1997|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-06565-7|pages=261–}}

Examples

A compass plane is a plane that is convex, length-ways, on the underside, for smoothing the concave faces of curved woodwork.
A compass saw is a narrow-bladed saw that cuts a curve.
A compass timber is a curved (or crooked) timber, sometimes used in shipbuilding.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
A compass brick is a curved brick.{{cite book|author=W.A. Radford|title=Radford's brick houses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTcLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-5-87292-530-9|pages=21–}}
A compass wall is a curved wall.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
A compass window is a circular bay window.Sturgis, Russell. "Compass" "Sturgis' illustrated dictionary of architecture and building: an unabridged reprint of the 1901-2 edition". Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1989. Print.
A surveyor's compass (or circumferentor) is a measuring instrument used in surveying horizontal angles.

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