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

Compass may also refer to:

Tools

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

Art and entertainment

  • Compass (novel), a 2015 novel by Mathias Enard
  • Compass (Hudson), a 2005 public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
  • Compass (Simpson), a 2003 public art work by American artist Gail Simpson
  • Compass Players (or Compass Theater), a 1950s improvised cabaret revue in Chicago, Illinois

Music

  • Compass or range, of a voice or musical instrument
  • Compass (band), a Chinese rock band
  • 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 (Joshua Redman album), 2013
  • "Compass" (Lady Antebellum song), 2013
  • Compass Records, an independent record label founded in 1995
  • "Compass", a song by Dala from the album Everyone Is Someone
  • "Compass", a song by Jonathan Thulin from the album Science Fiction
  • "Compass", a song by Rascal Flatts from the album Rewind
  • "Compass", a song by Zella Day from the album Kicker
  • "Compass", a song by Mili, made for Limbus Company

Television

  • Compass (1965 TV program), a 1965–1966 Canadian documentary television program
  • Compass (1986 TV program), a 1986 local Canadian television news program about Prince Edward Island
  • Compass (Australian TV program), a 1988 Australian news-documentary television program
  • Compass (Falling Skies), an episode of the American television drama series Falling Skies

Business and organizations

  • Compass, Inc., an American real estate brokerage
  • Compass (think tank), a British political think tank
  • Compass Datacenters inc., a datacenter company
  • Compass Airlines (Australia), operated 1990–1993
  • Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines
  • Compass Design Automation, a former integrated circuit design company
  • Compass Group, a British food-service and facilities-management company
  • Compass International Pictures, an American film-distribution company
  • Massachusetts Computer Associates, also known as COMPASS
  • Project Compass, a British programme to help ex-service personnel

Nature

  • Compass cactus or barrel cactus, members of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus
  • Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a kind of sunflower
  • Pyxis, abbreviated from Pyxis Nautica, Latin for mariner's compass, southern constellation

Publications

  • The Daily Compass, a 1949–1952 New York City, New York, newspaper
  • Social Work (journal), an academic journal known as The Compass from 1920 to 1948

Science and technology

  • Brunton compass, type of precision magnetic compass
  • Breithaupt compass or Geological compass
  • 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
  • An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

Traffic

  • Compass Card (San Diego), the original name of 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
  • COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada

Other

  • COMPASS (computer system) used by Bank of England
  • Compass (architecture), a curved circular form
  • COMPASS or COMPrehensive ASSembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
  • COMPASS experiment or Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy, a particle physics experiment at CERN
  • COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
  • Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
  • Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
  • Compass Project is the former name of Elasticsearch, a Java search engine framework
  • An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

Other uses

  • Compass (law), to purpose (or intend) something
  • Compass, Pennsylvania, United States
  • 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

See also

  • Compas (disambiguation)