Course may refer to:
Directions or navigation
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Course (navigation)
In navigation, the course of a watercraft or aircraft is the cardinal direction in which the craft is to be steered. The course is to be distinguished from the ''heading'', which is the direction where the watercraft's bow or the aircraft's no ...
, the path of travel
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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. The challenge is to compl ...
, 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
Education
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Course (education)
In higher education a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students. A course usually covers an individual subject. Courses gene ...
, a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic term
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academic major
An academic major is the academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits. A student who successfully completes all courses required for the major qualifies for an undergraduate degree. The word ''major'' (also called ''conce ...
, a programme of education leading to a degree or diploma
Food
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Course (food)
In dining, a course is a specific set of food items that are served together during a meal, all at the same time. A course may include multiple dishes or only one, and often includes items with some variety of flavors. For instance, a hamburger s ...
, a set of one or more food items served at once during a meal
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Main course
A main course is the featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. It usually follows the entrée ("entry") course.
Typically, the main course is the meal that is the heaviest, heartiest, and most intricate or substantial o ...
, the primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses.
Sports
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Courses and rules, in show jumpting, an equitation or equestrian obstacle course
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Coursing
Coursing by humans is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, t ...
, the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". Th ...
, an area of land designated for the play of golf
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La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
("La Course"), a women's professional road course bicycle race that accompanies Le Tour (Tour de France)
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Obstacle course
An obstacle course is a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual, team or animal must navigate, usually while being timed. Obstacle courses can include running, climbing, jumping, crawling, swimming, and balancing elements with th ...
, a series of challenging physical obstacles an individual or team must navigate for sport
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Race course
A race track (racetrack, racing track or racing circuit) is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses. Race tracks are also use ...
, for the racing of people, animals, and vehicles
Other uses
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Course (architecture)
A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.
Coursed masonry construction arranges u ...
, a continuous horizontal layer of similarly sized building material, in a wall
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Course (medicine) In medicine the term course generally takes one of two meanings, both reflecting the sense of " path that something or someone moves along...process or sequence or steps":
* A course of medication is a period of continual treatment with drugs, somet ...
, a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a disease
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Course (music)
A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string. The strings in each multiple-string course are typic ...
, 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
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Course (sail)
In sailing, a course is a type of square sail. It is the sail set on the lowest yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 ...
, the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vessel
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String course
A belt course, also called a string course or sill course, is a continuous row or layer of stones or brick set in a wall. Set in line with window sills, it helps to make the horizontal line of the sills visually more prominent. Set between the ...
, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
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The Course
The Course were a dance music act from the Netherlands. It consisted of DJ/producer Vincent Hendriks and vocalists Dewi Lopulalan and Irma Derby. , a Dutch dance music group
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Watercourse
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are ...
, the channel that a flowing body of water follows
See also
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Coarse (disambiguation)
Coarse may refer to:
*Bosnian Coarse-Haired Hound, developed by 19th century Bosnian hunters as a scent hound.
*Coarse (behavior), vulgar behavior
*Coarse bubble diffusers, produce 1/4 to 1/2 inch bubbles which rise rapidly from the floor of a was ...
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Courser (horse)
A courser is a swift and strong horse, frequently used during the Middle Ages as a Horses in warfare, warhorse. It was ridden by knights and Man-at-arms, men-at-arms.
Etymology
Coursers are commonly believed to be named for their running gait,Ewar ...
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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. Their most unusual feature for birds classed as waders is that ...
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