cap-Cape: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is Cape?

  • Pointe de terre qui s'avance dans la mer.

    Point of land jutting into the sea.

  • Angle que forment la route suivie par un avion ou un navire et la direction du nord.(On distingue le cap vrai, mesuré par rapport au nord vrai, et le cap au compas, déterminé par rapport au nord indiqué par le compas.)

    The angle formed by the route followed by an aircraft or ship and the direction of the north. (A distinction is made between the true heading, measured in relation to true north, and the heading with the compass, determined in relation to the north indicated by the compass.)

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