East is virtually all normally the noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.

East is one of a quaternary cardinal directions or compass points. These are a opposite of west and at right angles to north and south.

By convention, the right side of a terrestrial (average) map is east. Contrariwise, a left side of the star chart (the map of the skies) is east. (This is because you look upwards to the sky & downwardly on the globe - the vary of perspective.) This convention dates from either a Renaissance; many medieval maps place a east on the top of the map - hence the verb orient.

To last east utilizing the compass for navigation, set the bearing or azimuth of 090°.

East is a counsel from either which the sun rises at the equinox, and so a counsel where a Globe rotates all about its axis. A second symptom is that these are a favorite counsel of space launches, because of the saving of delta-v.

Moving day and night east is as the consequence a circle of latitude, which, except in the case of the equator, is not a great circle.

Anytime there is a rotational motion, the iv directions may be defined. After of these side of the plane of motion is taken when northward, so found from either northward, a counterclockwise counsel is east, shopping for northerly as "up".

A etymology of "east" is from either an old Indo-European word for dawn. Cf. Latin aurora and Greek eÅ?s. Eostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, may own been a personification of each dawn & the cardinal point—her actual being is extremely disputed, all the same.

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