# Compass (disambiguation)

A compass is a navigational instrument that indicates the direction to the magnetic poles.
Compass may also refer to:

## Tools

* Compass calipers, a tool to measure distances on a chart or map
* Compass (drawing tool), a tool to inscribe circles and arcs

## Art and entertainment

* Compass (novel), a 2015 novel by Mathias Enard
* Compass (Hudson), a 2005 public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
* Compass (Simpson), a 2003 public art work by American artist Gail Simpson
* Compass Players (or Compass Theater), a 1950s improvised cabaret revue in Chicago, Illinois

### Music

* Compass or range, of a voice or musical instrument
* Compass (band), a Chinese rock band
* Compass (Assemblage 23 album), 2009
* Compass (Jamie Lidell album), 2010
* Compass (Mark Vincent album), 2010
** Compass (Mark Vincent song), 2010 (later recorded by Didrik Solli-Tangen, and Sam Bailey)
* Compass (Joshua Redman album), 2013
* Compass (Lady Antebellum song), 2013
* Compass Records, an independent record label founded in 1995
* "Compass", a song by Dala from the album Everyone Is Someone
* "Compass", a song by Jonathan Thulin from the album Science Fiction
* "Compass", a song by Rascal Flatts from the album Rewind
* "Compass", a song by Zella Day from the album Kicker

### Television

* Compass (1965 TV program), a 1965–1966 Canadian documentary television program
* Compass (1986 TV program), a 1986 local Canadian television news program about Prince Edward Island
* Compass (Australian TV program), a 1988 Australian news-documentary television program
* Compass (Falling Skies), an episode of the American television drama series Falling Skies

## Business and organizations

* Compass, Inc., an American real estate brokerage
* Compass (think tank), a British left-wing political think tank
* Compass Datacenters inc., a datacenter company
* Compass Airlines (Australia), operated 1990–1993
* Compass Airlines (North America), a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines
* Compass Design Automation, a former integrated circuit design company
* Compass Group, a British food-service and facilities-management company
* Compass International Pictures, an American film-distribution company
* Massachusetts Computer Associates, also known as COMPASS
* Project Compass, a British programme to help ex-service personnel

## Nature

* Compass cactus or barrel cactus, members of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus
* Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum), a kind of sunflower
* Pyxis, abbreviated from Pyxis Nautica, Latin for mariner's compass, southern constellation

## Publications

* The Daily Compass, a 1949–1952 New York City, New York, newspaper
* Social Work (journal), an academic journal known as The Compass from 1920 to 1948

## Science and technology
### Navigation

* Brunton compass, type of precision magnetic compass
* Breithaupt compass or Geological compass
* Hand compass, any compact magnetic compass capable of one-hand use
* Radio direction finder, a tool used in direction finding that coincides with radio communications
* An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

### Traffic

* Compass Card (San Diego), a contactless smart card used for public transit in San Diego, California
* Compass Card (TransLink), an electronic payment system used for public transit in Vancouver, Canada
* COMPASS, the Freeway Traffic Management System, a traffic management system in Canada

### Other

* COMPASS (computer system) used by Bank of England
* Compass (architecture), a curved circular form
* COMPASS or COMPrehensive ASSembler, a programming language for CDC mainframe computers in the 1960s and 1970s
* COMPASS experiment or Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy, a particle physics experiment at CERN
* COMPASS tokamak, an experimental facility of Tokamak department of Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
* Grid Compass, the first laptop computer
* Jeep Compass, a compact crossover SUV
* Compass Project is the former name of Elasticsearch, a Java search engine framework
* An alternative name of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, which used the satellite Compass-M1

## Other uses

* Compass (law), to purpose (or intend) something
* Compass, Pennsylvania, United States
* Operation Compass, a World War II military operation in the North African campaign
* Political compass, a multi-axis model used to label or organize political thought