📖 compass

noun

1. navigational instrument for finding directions
2. drafting instrument used for drawing circles
3. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:“the range of a supersonic jet”
4. the limit of capability“within the compass of education”

See also: ambitorbitrangereachscopegrasp

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