Meaning of semicardinal | Babel Free

Definitions

Being or relating to a direction between two adjacent cardinal points, i.e. northwest, northeast, southwest, or southeast.

not-comparable

Examples

“Let the general division of the winds be as follows: Cardinal Winds, which blow from the cardinal points of heaven; Semicardinal, which blow halfway between those points”

“Historically these colors were associated with the semicardinal directions as follows: black and northeast; yellow and southeast; red and southwest; white and northwest.”

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