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Meanings of compass direction in English

Russian
географическое направление
Portuguese
direção geográfica
Spanish
dirección geográfica
Catalan
direcció geogràfica
Wikidata

Geographic direction.

географическое направление
Usage of compass direction in English
1
Point out a compass direction without the help of a compass.
Outdoor Sports and Games
2
We abandoned the road and traveled by a footpath across country in the compass direction of our objective.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
3
In contrast, the great circle route provides the shortest distance between the two cities, but the compass direction varies along this route.
The Irish Times
4
This is most easily done by taking the angle at which the strata are inclined and the compass direction in which they slant.
The Elements of Geology
5
So we took the compass direction, in order to assure consistency at least, and struck off at full right angles to the left.
African Camp Fires
6
I know compass directions!
The red pyramid
7
Drawn inside the balloon, at its very center, is a simple shape, a circle with eight rays projecting from it in the eight compass directions.
The dream of perpetual motion
Translations for compass direction