Flinders bar

noun Navigation.

a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.

Origin of Flinders bar

First recorded in 1880–85; named after M. Flinders

British Dictionary definitions for flinders bar

Flinders bar
/ (ˈflɪndəz) /

noun

nautical a bar of soft iron mounted on a binnacle to compensate for local magnetism causing error to the compass

Word Origin for Flinders bar

C19: named after Matthew Flinders (died 1814), English navigator