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    intermediate direction of every pair of neighboring cardinal and intercardinal directions is called a secondary intercardinal direction. These eight shortest...
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  • Member of the College of Cardinals Cardinal Health, a health care services company Cardinal number Large cardinal Cardinal direction, one of the four primary...
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  • directions Cardinal direction Bearing (navigation) Direction vector, a unit vector that defines a direction in multidimensional space Direction of a subspace...
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    will be referenced by cardinal directions (e.g., NORTH GROUP, SOUTH GROUP, or EAST GROUP, WEST GROUP).[A/A] [AIR-MAR] 2.  Direction to the threat.** [A/A]...
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  • Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding. The most direct...
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    position of a hazard and the direction of safe water. Cardinal marks indicate the direction of safety as a cardinal (compass) direction (north, east, south or...
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    the North. Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including...
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    western segment (see the Turkic cardinal system), adhering to the Mongolian and Turkic tradition of cardinal direction colors. In historiography, there...
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  • Look up cardinal point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cardinal point can refer to: Cardinal direction, the directions of the compass Cardinal point...
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    West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets...
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    romanized: as-sumūt, lit. 'the directions') is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate...
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    M3-1P Cardinal Direction - North (plaque) M3-2P Cardinal Direction - East (plaque) M3-3P Cardinal Direction - South (plaque) M3-4P Cardinal Direction - West...
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    as there was no differentiation between a cardinal direction and the wind which blew from such a direction. Using a polar coordinate system of gridding...
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    being determined by rotating the first cardinal direction the specified angle toward the second cardinal direction. For example, North 65° 39′ 18″ West 85...
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    Buddhist gods or devas, each of whom is believed to watch over one cardinal direction of the world. The Hall of Four Heavenly Kings is a standard component...
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    direction, requires adjustment. This change in direction becomes increasingly negligible as one moves to a lower latitude. Geography portal Cardinal direction...
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  • of different cardinal directions, not specifying the cardinal direction that they rule over). Gorson Religion portal Amaymon – the cardinal spirit of the...
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    described as a king ruled by Oriens (himself a demon overseeing the cardinal direction east, or the Orient), still possessing the power of invisibility,...
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    left-handed people Cardinal direction Cerebral hemisphere Clock position Dexter and sinister Direction determination Horizontal direction Dextral and sinistral...
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    South cardinal direction Haiti 1795–1800 Département d'Inganne [fr] Dominican Republic, Haiti Département du Nord [fr] North cardinal direction Haiti...
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  • Western Pacific Ocean Yellow River Cardinal direction#Cultural variations geographyrealm (2013-07-22). "Cardinal Directions and Ordinal Directions"....
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    the subcomponents are called the "principal" followed by the "cardinal" wind/direction. As a mnemonic (memory device), minds familiar encode the meaning...
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    the Sun") is an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east. According to Aztec Mythology, Tonatiuh was known as "The...
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    North (redirect from North (direction))
    or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or...
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    armillary spheres for astronomy, and seismometers that discerned the cardinal direction of distant earthquakes by use of inverted pendulums. The Han dynasty...
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    aircraft is the cardinal direction in which the craft is to be steered. The course is to be distinguished from the heading, which is the direction where the...
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  • strategies, including their sense of direction, spatial strategies, allocentric mental map strategy, and knowledge of cardinal directions. The FRS has been validated...
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    "Four Barbarians" (Chinese: 四夷; pinyin: sìyí), each was named for a cardinal direction: the Dongyi (東夷, "Eastern Barbarians"), Nanman (南蠻, "Southern Barbarians")...
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  • proper noun epithet of the Agni Purana, the Āgneya Astra, and the cardinal direction of the South East (of which Agni is the Dikpala). The feminine construction...
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  • north, or northward in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. North is a cardinal direction or compass point. North or The North may also refer to: North, South...
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