compass rose

English

A compass rose

Noun

compass rose (plural compass roses)

1. (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
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• Hungarian: szélrózsa (hu)
• Italian: rosa dei venti
• Polish: róża wiatrów (pl)
• Portuguese: rosa dos ventos (pt) f, rosa-dos-ventos (pt) f
• Russian: ро́за ветро́в f (róza vetróv)
• Spanish: rosa de los vientos f

Further reading

• compass rose on Wikipedia.Wikipedia