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compass noun (DIRECTION DEVICE) âº [ C ] a device for finding direction with a needle that can move easily and that always points to magnetic north. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. Points of the compass.
But the 32 points did remind sailors of a certain flower, so the directions on the compass card were called the compass rose they looked like the petals of a rose. When the first compasses come in to use in the Mediterranean, the directions were named for the wind direction.