a circle or decorative device printed on a map or chart showing the points of the compass measured from true north and usually magnetic north
compass rose in American English
noun
1. Nautical
a circle divided into 32 points or 360° numbered clockwise from true or magnetic north, printed on a chart or the like as a means of determining the course of a vessel or aircraft
2.
a similar design, often ornamented, used on maps to indicate the points of the compass
Examples of 'compass rose' in a sentence
compass rose
Her style is in places carefully judged, as when she compares the fracturing self in mania to the 'infinitely discriminable points on a compass-rose'.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)
See the gothic town hall and the 15th-century pharmacy, and seek out the circular stone at the square's centre, marked with a compass rose.