true course

noun

, Navigation.

1. a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.

Example Sentences

In fact, I am persuaded that my true course is to be master of myself and of my time.

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While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.

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According to his ample knowledge of the shoals, he had been on his true course and well off the dangerous shallows.

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In some instances the needle has been drawn as much as seven degrees from its true course.

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To steer the true course, one must not only see the star but have a pilot.

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