- a figure used as a symbol or an ornament in the Old World and in America since prehistoric times, consisting of a cross with arms of equal length, each arm having a continuation at right angles.
- this figure as the official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- a primitive religious symbol or ornament in the shape of a Greek cross, usually having the ends of the arms bent at right angles in either a clockwise or anticlockwise direction
- this symbol with clockwise arms, officially adopted in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany
