The receiver displays a compass direction indicating the way back.

The term can also be used to mean the "absolute" compass direction of an object, as seen by us.

One can draw on a floor lines going north, south, east, and west, in fact, along any compass direction.

There were lines, compass directions, and distances marked on it.

Note: All compass directions above are given in nominal terms.

This map was later replaced by another one, with different compass directions.

The chief pointed to the compass directions, then to the stars.

And so on for each of the four major compass directions.

Like many butterflies, they appear to use the position of the sun as a guide to compass direction.

Anyway, compass directions in themselves would be useless until he knew where Duncan was.