Direction may refer to:
- Direction (geometry)
- Relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down
- Compass direction
- Film direction, the filmmaker who is in charge of the making of the visual medium
- Stage direction, also called theater direction
- Writing direction
- See Alexander technique for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique
- Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
- Direction (record label), a record label in the UK in the late 1960s, a subsidiary of CBS Records, specialising in soul music
- Direction (song), a 7" single by American indie rock band Heavens to Betsy
- Directions: The Plans Video Album, a DVD video album made of videos inspired by songs from indie rock/pop band Death Cab for Cutie's album Plans
- Directed set, in order theory
- Directed graph, in graph theory
- "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet Under soundtrack
- For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conducting
- Direction (album) a 2007 album by The Starting Line
- Directionality (molecular biology), the orientation of a nucleic acid
- Directions (delegated legislation), a form of delegated legislation
Other articles related to "direction":
... The direction in which the wave vector points must be distinguished from the "direction of wave propagation" ... The "direction of wave propagation" is the direction of a wave's energy flow, and the direction that a small wave packet will move, i.e ... the direction of the group velocity ...
... These then define the 5'→3' direction ... There are three reading frames that can be read in this 5'→3' direction, each beginning from a different nucleotide in a triplet ... the other, complementary strand in the 5'→3' direction along this strand ...
... cross each other in the city (planned S8) direction Suwałki – Warszawa – Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Wrocław – Kudowa-Zdrój direction Kozienice – Dęblin ...
... is a term used (for example) in navigation, although it can also be used to refer to simply our direction of motion ... terms, "bearing" is perhaps more usually the angle between our forward direction, and the direction from us to another object ... It typically refers to the direction of, some object, as seen by us, compared to our current heading ...
... × b is defined as a vector c that is perpendicular to both a and b, with a direction given by the right-hand rule and a magnitude equal to the area of the parallelogram that the vectors span ... b, and n is a unit vector perpendicular to the plane containing a and b in the direction given by the right-hand rule as illustrated ... The direction of the vector n is given by the right-hand rule, where one simply points the forefinger of the right hand in the direction of a and the middle finger in the direction of b ...
Famous quotes containing the word direction:
“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not easy to construct by mere scientific synthesis a foolproof system which will lead our children in a desired direction and avoid an undesirable one. Obviously, good can come only from a continuing interplay between that which we, as students, are gradually learning and that which we believe in, as people.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)