Medical self-insurance is increasingly popular among small firms, say brokers and insurers. Small businesses see such plans as low-cost alternatives to regular coverage. Some critics see the self-insure trend as a threat to the Affordable Care Act.
noun. 1  The definition of a compass is a tool with two pointed legs connected by a hinge, one end with a writing device the other used as a stable pivot, used for drawing perfect circles and other things. 2  A compass is defined as a device with magnetic needles used for showing the direction one is facing.
Check your grammar now! : a compass consisting of a continuously driven gyroscope whose spinning axis is confined to a horizontal plane so that the earth's rotation causes it to assume a position parallel to the earth's axis and thus point to the true north.