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noun 
  1. A device used to take a bearing on a distant object.
  • 1973: Light clusters, clear, deep, on the face of the radio gear"fans up softly off the dial of the "spills out portholes onto the white river. " Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Etymology: Named from Pelorus, reportedly the name of w:Hannibal, Hannibal's pilot.

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