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, 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