Inventors Of The Compass And Movable Type Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	adjective • of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures • of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language noun • any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system • a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
	36%	11		Inventors of paper, compass, and gunpowder
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	33%	8		Housing with a movable element that contains a magnetic compass
	noun • a nonmagnetic housing for a ship's compass (usually in front of the helm)

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