compass point

English

16 compass points on a compass rose

Noun

compass point (plural compass points)

Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 32, 8, 16, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.

Usage notes

For the names of the individual compass points see the Wikipedia article on Boxing the compass

Synonyms

point of the compass

Hyponyms

Category:en:Compass points

Translations

any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass

Catalan: punt cardinal (ca) m
Dutch: windstreek (nl) f, windrichting (nl) f
Finnish: kompassisuunta, ilmansuunta (fi)
French: point cardinal (fr) m
German: Himmelsrichtung (de) f
Hungarian: égtáj (hu), világtáj
Indonesian: mata angin (id)
Irish: rinn f, rinn compáis f, aird an chompáis f
Italian: punto cardinale
Japanese: 方角 (ja) (ほうがく, hōgaku)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} plaga caeli

Latvian: debespuse f
Macedonian: страна на светот f (strána na svétot)
Malay: arah mata angin
Polish: strona świata f
Portuguese: ponto cardeal (pt) m
Romanian: direcție cardinală f, punct cardinal (ro) n
Romansch: direcziun f, direcziùn f (Sutsilvan)
Russian: сторона́ све́та (ru) f (storoná svéta), страна́ све́та f (straná svéta)
Scottish Gaelic: àird f
Spanish: punto cardinal m
Swedish: väderstreck (sv) n

Further reading

compass point at OneLook Dictionary Search

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