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directions are valuable in that they allow a user to refer to a specific azimuth in a colloquial fashion, without having to compute or remember degrees.

Designations

The names of the compass point directions follow these rules:

8-wind compass rose

* The four cardinal directions are north (N), east (E), south (S), west (W), at 90° angles on the compass rose.
* The four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions are formed by

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