North, the Glossary
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions.[1]
Table of Contents
80 relations: Adjective, Adverb, Alaska, Ancient Greek, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Aurora, Azimuth, Bearing (navigation), Boreads, Boreas (god), Canada, Cardinal direction, Celestial pole, Celts, Compass, Compass rose, Daniel J. Boorstin, Denmark, Earth's magnetic field, East, Etymology, Finland, Geographical pole, Geography, Globe, Greenland, Hungarian language, Iceland, International Astronomical Union, Invariable plane, Landmark, Latin, Lezgian language, Lezgins, List of northernmost items, Magnetic declination, Map, Map projection, Meridian (geography), Mesoamerica, Navigation, Nordicity, North magnetic pole, North Pole, Northern Hemisphere, Northwest Territories, Norway, Noun, ... Expand index (30 more) »
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.
See North and Adverb
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
See North and Alaska
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
See North and Arctic
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Aurora
An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
See North and Aurora
Azimuth
An azimuth (from the directions) is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system.
Bearing (navigation)
In navigation, bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object.
See North and Bearing (navigation)
Boreads
The Boreads (Boreádai) are the "wind brothers" in Greek mythology.
Boreas (god)
Boreas (Βορέας,; also Βορρᾶς) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
See North and Canada
Cardinal direction
The four cardinal directions, or cardinal points, are the four main compass directions: north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials N, S, E, and W respectively.
See North and Cardinal direction
Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
See North and Celts
Compass
A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation.
Compass rose
A compass rose, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history.
See North and Daniel J. Boorstin
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
See North and Earth's magnetic field
East
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass.
See North and East
Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Geographical pole
A geographical pole or geographic pole is either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface.
See North and Geographical pole
Geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
Globe
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere.
See North and Globe
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
See North and Hungarian language
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.
See North and International Astronomical Union
Invariable plane
The invariable plane of a planetary system, also called Laplace's invariable plane, is the plane passing through its barycenter (center of mass) perpendicular to its angular momentum vector.
See North and Invariable plane
Landmark
A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
See North and Latin
Lezgian language
Lezgian, also called Lezgi or Lezgin, is a Northeast Caucasian language.
See North and Lezgian language
Lezgins
Lezgins (Лезгияр lezgijar) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native predominantly to southern Dagestan, a republic of Russia, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and speak the Lezgin language.
List of northernmost items
This is a list of various northernmost things on Earth.
See North and List of northernmost items
Magnetic declination
Magnetic declination (also called magnetic variation) is the angle between magnetic north and true north at a particular location on the Earth's surface.
See North and Magnetic declination
Map
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.
See North and Map
Map projection
In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane.
Meridian (geography)
In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).
See North and Meridian (geography)
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
Nordicity
Nordicity is the degree of northernness.
North magnetic pole
The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downward (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate in three dimensions, it will point straight down).
See North and North magnetic pole
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
See North and Northern Hemisphere
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.
See North and Northwest Territories
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
See North and Norway
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
See North and Noun
Nunavut
Nunavut (ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
Orientation (geometry)
In geometry, the orientation, attitude, bearing, direction, or angular position of an object – such as a line, plane or rigid body – is part of the description of how it is placed in the space it occupies.
See North and Orientation (geometry)
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
See North and Ovid
Perpendicular
In geometry, two geometric objects are perpendicular if their intersection forms right angles (angles that are 90 degrees or π/2 radians wide) at the point of intersection called a foot.
Planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
See North and Planet
Points of the compass
The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.
See North and Points of the compass
Polaris
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Projected coordinate system
A projected coordinate systemalso called a projected coordinate reference system, planar coordinate system, or grid reference systemis a type of spatial reference system that represents locations on Earth using Cartesian coordinates (x, y) on a planar surface created by a particular map projection.
See North and Projected coordinate system
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
See North and Proto-Indo-European language
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
See North and Romanian language
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
See North and Russia
Septentrional
Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a Latinate adjective sometimes used in English.
Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
South
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points.
See North and South
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
See North and Sun
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
See North and Sweden
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
See North and Temperate climate
Tropic of Cancer
The Tropic of Cancer, also known as the Northern Tropic, is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.
See North and Tropic of Cancer
True north
True north (also called geodetic north or geographic north) is the direction along Earth's surface towards the place where the imaginary rotational axis of the Earth intersects the surface of the Earth.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
See North and Uranus
Ursa Major
Ursa Major (also known as the Great Bear) is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory.
West
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass.
See North and West
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
Yukon
Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.
See North and Yukon
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North
, Nunavut, Old High German, Orientation (geometry), Ovid, Perpendicular, Planet, Points of the compass, Polaris, Polynesia, Projected coordinate system, Proto-Indo-European language, Ptolemy, Romanian language, Russia, Septentrional, Social norm, Solar System, South, Stone Age, Sun, Sweden, Temperate climate, Tropic of Cancer, True north, United States, Uranus, Ursa Major, West, Western culture, Yukon.