6. Compass or compasses, or a pair of compasses, so named from its legs, but pair is superfluous or improper, and the singular number compass is the preferable name, an instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, &c., consisting of two pointed legs or branches, made of iron, steel or brass, joined at the top by a rivet, on which they move.
Genre Definition. Genre means the type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content and style. For example, literature has four main genres; poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. All of these genres have particular features and functions that distinguish them from one another.
In literature, a genre is the category that a work falls under based on different similarities between texts. Some common genres include epics, fairy tales, or ghost stories. But what about the story of Frankenstein? Mary Shelley's novel actually falls under two different genres: Gothic novel and science fiction.