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An 8-point compass rose is a prominent feature in the logo of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. Hong Kong Correctional Services's crest uses a four-pointed compass rose. The compass rose is used as the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. [22] A 16-point compass rose was IBM's logo for the System/360 product line.
English: Alternative depiction of the wind rose of Aristotle, on the basis of his his Meteorologica.This depiction assumes that eight winds are principal winds (45-degrees) and four are half-winds (22.5-degrees) on a compass rose, and thus their correspondence with modern compass directions (N, NNE, NE, etc.)
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A wind rose is a diagram used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Historically, wind roses were predecessors of the compass rose (also known as a wind rose), found on nautical charts , as there was no differentiation between a cardinal direction and the ...
A rhumbline network (or windrose network) is a navigational aid consisting in lines drawn from multiple vertices in different directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and other early nautical charts used in the medieval age and age of exploration in marine navigation .
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Windrose or wind rose can refer to: Wind rose, a meteorologist's graphic tool; Compass rose, a compass subdivision; Compass rose network, a network composed by a group of Compass roses emerging from hexadecagon vertices; Maupin Windrose, an American glider design; Windrose 5.5, an American sailboat design; Wind Rose Aviation, a Ukrainian airline