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bearing

Noun B1 – Intermediate

A direction measured clockwise from north, given as an angle between 0 and 360 degrees.

"The ship's captain set a bearing of 045 degrees to head northeast."

Bearings are always given as three digits, so a direction of 45 degrees is written as 045.