compass point

English

16 compass points on a compass rose

Noun

compass point (plural compass points)

1. Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 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 Points of the compass

Hyponyms

• Category:en:Compass points

Related terms

• all points of the compass
• every point of the compass

Translations

any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass

• Catalan: punt cardinal (ca) m
• Dutch: windstreek (nl) f, windrichting (nl) f
• Estonian: ilmakaar, kompassisuund
• Finnish: kompassisuunta, ilmansuunta (fi)
• French: point cardinal (fr) m
• German: Himmelsrichtung (de) f
• Hungarian: égtáj (hu), világtáj (hu)
• Indonesian: mata angin (id)
• Irish: rinn f, rinn compáis f, aird an chompáis f
• Italian: punto cardinale m
• Japanese: 方角 (ja) (ほうがく, hōgaku)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} plaga caeli
• Latvian: debespuse f
• Macedonian: страна на светот f (strana na svetot)
• Malay: 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)
• Sanskrit: दिशा (sa) f (diśā)
• Scottish Gaelic: àird f
• Spanish: punto cardinal m
• Swedish: väderstreck (sv) n

See also

• (compass points)

northwest	north	northeast
west		east
southwest	south	southeast

Further reading

• “compass point”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.