Any of the horizontal directions indicated on a compass. There may be 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or even 128 compass points on a compass, depending on its size and accuracy.

(nautical) The process of swinging and compensating a ship or aircraft compass by determining and reducing the deviation coefficients and recording the residual deviations; now done by computer.

(transitive, archaic, literally) To drive together, round up / (transitive) To overpower; to subdue. / (transitive) To force, constrain or coerce.

(often with to) Able to be compared (to). / (often with to) Similar (to); like. / (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

Something suitable for comparison.

(transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.

(uncountable) Comparison. / (countable, programming) An instruction or command that compares two values or states. / (uncountable, obsolete) Illustration by comparison; simile.

(economics, business) An attribute that allows a company or a person to outperform competitors.

(transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources. / (obsolete) To construct; to build.

(programming) An act of compiling code.