Definition:West (Terrestrial)
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Definition
West is the direction on (or near) Earth's surface along the small circle in the opposite direction from Earth's rotation in space about its axis.
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- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cardinal points: 1.
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cardinal points: 1.