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Azimuth vs. Bearing — What's the Difference?

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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