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n. (context navigation English) A graduated circle, usually marked in degrees, indicating directions and printed or inscribed on an appropriate medium.
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A compass rose, sometimes called a windrose, or Rose of the Winds, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions: North, East, South, and West—and their intermediate points. It is also the term for the graduated markings found on the traditional magnetic compass. Today, the idea of a compass rose is found on, or featured in, almost all navigation systems, including nautical charts, non-directional beacons (NDB), VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) systems, global-positioning systems ( GPS), and similar equipment.
Usage examples of "compass rose".
Now it seemed to him essential to find out how many men had got away from Compass Rose, and how many were left alive: the Captain was sure to ask him and he didn't want to be caught out.
Printed on the card was a compass rose around which were written figures in ink.
Wentworth went to the chart table, checked with his parallel rule against the compass rose.
He was supposed to join An'desha and Natoli and go to the Compass Rose as soon as the meeting was over, but he didn't have the heart for it now.
The compass rose was swinging and by the time I reached the binnacle it had travelled through seven degrees.
Rick waited until Scotty and Barby arrived with the pelorus, a sighting device built on a compass rose, and the boat compass with which to align it.
There were also, Auberon saw, blocks of minute type placed explanatorily here and there (lost allies' regiments), and the hieroglyphs of the planets, and a compass rose, though not of directions, and a scale, though not of miles.
He then twisted the knife round so he could use the blade to transfer the bearing from the compass rose.
The winds almost always came from the southeastern quarter of the compass rose, and every time they caught sight of the Galleon she seemed to be going free, which was a way of saying that the wind was coming in from behind her and from one side—.
Dreams of the Compass Rose has a similar stately lyricism, a compelling and visionary voice that speaks to the heart of the reader.
The Compass Rose helped travelers navigate, as did Rose Lines, the longitudinal lines on maps.
He rechecks the bearing at the compass rose at the bottom and then adjusts by twenty degrees for the local magnetic variation.