compass rose

English

A compass rose

Noun

compass rose (plural compass roses)

(navigation) A graduated circle, usually marked in degrees, indicating directions and printed or inscribed on an appropriate medium.

Translations

a circle indicating directions

Danish: kompasrose
Dutch: windroos (nl)
Finnish: kompassiruusu (fi)
French: rose des vents (fr) f
Galician: rosa dos ventos f
German: Kompassrose (de) f

Hungarian: szélrózsa (hu)
Italian: rosa dei venti
Polish: róża wiatrów (pl)
Portuguese: rosa dos ventos (pt) f, rosa-dos-ventos (pt) f
Spanish: rosa de los vientos f

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