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wind-rose

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Â© The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

wind-rose, a circular diagram displayed on modern charts to show the average strength and direction of winds from different directions and the frequency of other meteorological phenomena.

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