Azimuth vs. Bearing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Azimuth and Bearing
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Azimuth
An azimuth ( (listen); from Arabic اَلسُّمُوت as-sumūt, 'the directions', the plural form of the Arabic noun السَّمْت as-samt, meaning 'the direction') is an angular measurement in a spherical coordinate system. The vector from an observer (origin) to a point of interest is projected perpendicularly onto a reference plane; the angle between the projected vector and a reference vector on the reference plane is called the azimuth.
Bearing
The manner in which one carries or conducts oneself
The poise and bearing of a champion.
Azimuth
The horizontal angular distance from a reference direction, usually the northern point of the horizon, to the point where a vertical circle through a celestial body intersects the horizon, usually measured clockwise. Sometimes the southern point is used as the reference direction, and the measurement is made clockwise through 360°.
Bearing
A machine or structural part that supports another part.
Azimuth
The horizontal angle of an observer's bearing, measured clockwise from a reference direction such as true north.
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Bearing
A device that supports, guides, and reduces the friction of motion between fixed and moving machine parts.
Azimuth
The horizontal angle of a projectile's motion, measured relative to a reference direction such as true north.
Bearing
Something that supports weight.
Azimuth
An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
The azimuth of a star
The azimuth or bearing of a line surveying
Bearing
The part of an arch or beam that rests on a support.
Azimuth
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
Bearing
The act, power, or period of producing fruit or offspring.
Azimuth
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
Bearing
The quantity produced; yield.
Azimuth
The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian
Bearing
Direction, especially angular direction measured from one position to another using geographical or celestial reference lines.
Bearing
Often bearings Awareness of one's position or situation relative to one's surroundings
Lost my bearings after taking the wrong exit.
Bearing
Relevant relationship or interconnection
Those issues have no bearing on our situation.
Bearing
(Heraldry) A charge or device on a field.
Bearing
(Architecture) Designed to support structural weight
A bearing wall.
Bearing
Present participle of bear
Bearing
(in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
A gift-bearing visitor
Bearing
Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
That's a bearing wall.
Bearing
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
Bearing
The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
Bearing
One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.
Bearing
Relevance; a relationship or connection.
That has no bearing on this issue.
Bearing
One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
Bearing
(architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing
(architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing
The unsupported span.
The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
Bearing
(heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
Bearing
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing.
Bearing
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing
The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,The strong connections, nice dependencies.
Bearing
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
Bearing
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing.
Bearing
That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
Bearing
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms - commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings.
Bearing
The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
Bearing
Relevant relation or interconnection;
Those issues have no bearing on our situation
Bearing
The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
Bearing
Dignified manner or conduct
Bearing
Characteristic way of bearing one's body;
Stood with good posture
Bearing
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Bearing
A rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
Bearing
(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain
Bearing
Producing or yielding;
An interest-bearing note
Fruit-bearing trees
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