Course
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Course can refer to:
  • Course (navigation)
    Course (navigation)
    In navigation, a vehicle's course is the angle that the intended path of the vehicle makes with a fixed reference object . Typically course is measured in degrees from 0° clockwise to 360° in compass convention . Course is customarily expressed in three digits, using preliminary zeros if needed,...

    , the path of travel
  • Course (sail)
    Course (sail)
    In sailing, a course is the lowermost sail on a mast.This term is used predominantly in the plural to describe the lowest sails on a square rigged vessel, i.e., a ship's courses would be the foresail, mainsail, and, on the rare occasions in which one is shipped, mizen...

    , the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel
  • Course (education)
    Course (education)
    The very broad dictionary meaning of the word course is the act or action of moving in a path from point to point . There are multiple meanings for this word, some of which include: general line of orientation, a mode of action, part of a meal, a mode of action, and many more. This article focuses...

    , in the United States, a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic term
  • Course Atlas (education)
  • Course catalog (education)
    Course catalog (education)
    A course catalog or course calendar is an organized, detailed, descriptive list of course offerings at a college, university or other educational outlet. Educational organizations usually publish a course catalog with additional information covering academic and administrative policies and...

  • Course of study
    Academic major
    In the United States and Canada, an academic major or major concentration is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits....

    , in the Commonwealth of Nations
    Commonwealth of Nations
    The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

     and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma
  • Course of employment
    Course of employment
    Course of employment is a legal consideration of all circumstances which may occur in the performance of a person's job, especially during a period of time where specific objectives are given by the employer to the employee. Black's Law Dictionary pg...

    , a legal consideration of all circumstances which may occur in the performance of a person's job
  • Course (medicine)
    Course (medicine)
    In medicine, a course of medication is a period of continuous treatment with a drug, sometimes with variable dosage. Treatment with some drugs should not end abruptly...

    , a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease
  • Course (music)
    Course (music)
    A course is a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually played together as if a single string. It may also refer to a single string normally played on its own on an instrument with other multi-string courses, for example the bass string on a nine string baroque...

    , a pair or more of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and played together to give a single note, in a stringed instrument
  • Main course
    Main course
    A main dish is the featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. It usually follows the entrée course, and the salad course. In North American usage it may in fact be called the "entree"....

    , the primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses
  • Course (architecture)
    Course (architecture)
    A course is a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material one unit high, usually in a wall. The term is almost always used in conjunction with unit masonry such as brick, cut stone, or concrete masonry units .-Styles:...

    , a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material, in a wall
    • String course, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
  • Course (orienteering)
    Course (orienteering)
    An orienteering course is composed of a start point, a series of control points, and a finish point. Controls are marked with a white and orange flag in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on an orienteering map...

    , a series of control points visited by orienteers during a competition, marked with red/white flags in the terrain, and corresponding purple symbols on the map
  • Coursing
    Coursing
    Coursing is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight and not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, and commoners with sighthounds and lurchers...

     is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs


Course may also refer to:
  • Golf course
    Golf course
    A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

    , an area of land designated for the play of golf
  • Obstacle course
    Obstacle course
    An obstacle course is a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate usually while being timed. Obstacle courses can include running, climbing, jumping, crawling, swimming, and balancing elements with the aim of testing speed and endurance. Sometimes a course...

    , a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport

See also

  • Coarse (disambiguation)
  • Courser (bird)
    Courser
    The Coursers are a group of birds which together with the pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae. They have long legs, short wings and long pointed bills which curve downwards...

  • Courser (horse)
    Courser (horse)
    A courser is a swift and strong horse, frequently used during the Middle Ages as a warhorse. It was ridden by knights and men-at-arms.Coursers are commonly believed to be named for their running gait,...

  • Course (ambiguous texture)
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