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South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.

South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of North and at right angles to East and West.

By Western convention, the bottom side of a map is South.

To go south using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 180°.

True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Magnetic south is the direction towards the south magnetic pole, some distance away from the south geographic pole.

The etymology of South can be traced back to the Old English word suth, related to the Old High German word sund, and perhaps sunne in Old English with sense of "the region of the sun."

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    In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's subject), giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to.
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    adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs, except for nouns; modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives.
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    Direction is the information contained in the relative position of one point with respect to another point without the distance information. Directions may be either relative to some indicated reference (the violins in a full orchestra are typically seated to the left of the
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    Geography - (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαία), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write"
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    cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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    For other uses, see Compass (disambiguation).


    COMPASS is an acronym for COMPrehensive ASSembler. COMPASS is a macro assembly language on Control Data Corporation's 3000 series, and on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series, 7600 and
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    North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the
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    East is a direction in geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the
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    WEST can refer to:
    • Western European Summer Time
    • WEST (AM), an AM radio station located in Easton, Pennsylvania
    ''This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation).

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    Western society may refer to:
    • Western culture, a term used to refer to the cultures of people of European origin and their descendants.
    • Western world, countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture, such as the countries of the Americas and most of

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    In sociology, a norm, or social norm, is a rule that is socially enforced. Social sanctioning is what distinguishes norms from other cultural products or social constructions such as meaning and values.
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    MAP may refer to:
    • MAP, the ISO 639 alpha-3 for Austronesian languages
    • MAP (band), an indie band from Riverside, California
    • Maghreb Arab Press, the official Moroccan news agency
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    Navigation is the process of planning, recording, and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.[1] The word navigate is derived from the Latin roots navis meaning "ship" and agere meaning "to move" or "to direct.
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    In navigation, a bearing is the clockwise angle between a reference direction (or a datum line) and the direction to an object. Unless otherwise specified, the reference direction is generally understood to be magnetic North, in which case the term compass bearing
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    EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001. Their greatest hit, their debut single "time after time", peaked at #13 in the Oricon singles chart.
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    South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth. It lies on the continent of Antarctica, on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole.
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    Magnetic South could refer to
    • Magnetic South Pole
    • South Pole
    • Magnetic South (album) an album from Michael Nesmith

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    Earth's magnetic field (and the surface magnetic field) is approximately a magnetic dipole, with one pole near the north pole (see Magnetic North Pole) and the other near the geographic south pole (see Magnetic South Pole).
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    Etymology is the study of the history of words - when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

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    Old English/Anglo-Saxon}}}
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    ISO 639-2: ang
    ISO 639-3: ang Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon[1], Englisc
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    Old High German}}}
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    ISO 639-1: none
    ISO 639-2: goh
    ISO 639-3: goh The term Old High German (OHG, German: Althochdeutsch, german abbr. Ahd.
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    cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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    North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the
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    cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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    East is a direction in geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the
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    cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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    cardinal directions, they are north, east, south and west. Though the names may seem arbitrary, there are simple specific means to establish each direction, which should work anywhere on Earth where there is a view of the sky.
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