SYNONYMY NOTE: irritable implies quick excitability to annoyance or anger, usually resulting from emotional tension, restlessness, physical indisposition, etc.; , irascible, choleric are applied to persons who are hot-tempered and can be roused to a fit of anger at the slightest irritation; , splenetic suggests a peevish moroseness in one quick to ...
Quick Answer. A map direction symbol is called a compass rose, and a simple compass rose symbol may only depict the four cardinal directions of north, east, west and south. A compass rose has been used on charts, atlases and maps by navigators since the 14th century. A more detailed compass rose can show many other directions.
n. ( 1 Physical Geography) the direction in which a compass needle points, at an angle (the declination) from the direction of true (geographic) north. 2  1. of, or having the powers of, or operating by means of, a magnet or magnetism. 3  2. strongly attractive. a magnetic personality. 4  1. power of attraction.