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, often a map.

Translations

a circle indicating directions

Catalan: rosa nàutica f, rosa dels vents f
Danish: kompasrose
Dutch: windroos (nl)
Estonian: tuulteroos
Finnish: kompassiruusu (fi)
French: rose des vents (fr) f
Galician: rosa dos ventos (gl) f
German: Kompassrose (de) f, Windrose (de) f
Greek: ανεμολόγιο (el) n (anemológio)
Hungarian: szélrózsa (hu)
Italian: rosa dei venti
Polish: róża wiatrów (pl) f
Portuguese: rosa dos ventos (pt) f, rosa-dos-ventos (pt) f
Russian: ро́за ветро́в (ru) f (róza vetróv)
Spanish: rosa de los vientos f

Further reading

compass rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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