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Compass point   /kˈəmpəs pɔɪnt/   Listen
Compass point

noun
1.
Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass.  Synonym: point.



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cardinal compass point


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"Compass point" Quotes from Famous Books



... so fully in the compass that they thought it could never change its position. And here it was playing a cruel trick upon them. We are trapped! they cried. The goblins in this dreadful sea are making our compass point wrong so as to drag us to destruction. Go back; ...
— The True Story of Christopher Columbus • Elbridge S. Brooks


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