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intercardinal direction between south and west
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Not who you're looking for? Others named southwest: unincorporated community in Elkhart County, Indiana · community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA · album by Daz Dillinger · unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvani
The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide the compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 "points".
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