Usually means: Primary direction on a compass.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. cardinal point: Merriam-Webster
  2. cardinal point: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cardinal point: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cardinal point: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. cardinal point: Wiktionary
  6. cardinal point: Dictionary.com
  7. Cardinal point (disambiguation), Cardinal point (optics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. cardinal point: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. cardinal point: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cardinal point: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cardinal point (optics), cardinal point: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cardinal point: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cardinal point)

noun:  Any of the four principal points of the compass: north, south, east and west.

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