Direction
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- Direction (geometry) Direction is the information contained in the relative position of one point with respect to another point without the distance information. Directions may be either relative to some indicated reference , or absolute according to some previously agreed upon frame of reference (New York City lies due west of Madrid). Direction is often indicated
- Relative direction The most common relative directions are left, right, forward, backward, up, and down. No absolute direction corresponds to any of the relative directions. This is a consequence of the translational invariance of the laws of physics: nature, loosely speaking, behaves the same no matter what direction one moves. As demonstrated by the Michelson-, for instance left, right, forward, backward, up, and down
- compass direction Boxing the compass is the action of naming all thirty-two principal points of the compass in clockwise order. Such names, formed by the initials of the cardinal directions and their intermediate ordinal directions, are accepted internationally, even though they have their origin in the English language, and are very handy to refer to a heading in
- Film direction A film director is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Many people also consider film producers, cinematographers, film editors, and special effects experts to be filmmakers, the filmmaker who is in charge of the making of the visual medium
- Stage direction A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of theatre production and to lead the members of the creative team into realising, also called theater direction
- Writing direction Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to comprehend the text. By contrast, other possible symbolic systems such as information signs, painting, maps and mathematics often do not require prior knowledge of a spoken language
- See Alexander technique The Alexander technique is an alternative medicine and educational discipline focusing on bodily coordination, including psychological principles of awareness. It is applied for purposes of recovering freedom of movement, in the mastery of performing arts, and for general self-improvement affecting poise, impulse control and attention for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique
- Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
- Direction, a record label which flourished in the late 1960s, specialising in soul music
- Direction (song), a 7" single by American indie rock band Heavens to Betsy
- Directions: The Plans Video Album Directions: The Plans Video Album is a Grammy-nominated video album from Death Cab for Cutie, corresponding to their major-label debut album Plans. It was released on April 11, 2006 on Atlantic Records/WEA Records. Proposals from around the world were submitted to Death Cab for Cutie, and a budget was allowed for 12 finalists to create videos that, 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 mathematics, a directed set is a nonempty set A together with a reflexive and transitive binary relation ≤ (that is, a preorder), with the additional property that every pair of elements has an upper bound, in order theory
- Directed graph It differs from an ordinary or undirected graph, in that the latter is defined in terms of unordered pairs of vertices, which are usually called edges, in graph theory
- "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet Under Six Feet Under is a soundtrack album to the HBO television series Six Feet Under, released in 2002 on Universal Music soundtrack
- For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conducting Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors
- Direction (album) Direction is The Starting Line's third studio album, following Based on a True Story, and was released on July 31, 2007 a 2007 album by The Starting Line
- Directionality (molecular biology) Directionality, in molecular biology and biochemistry, refers to the end-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid. The chemical convention of naming carbon atoms in the nucleotide sugar-ring numerically gives rise to a 5'-end and a 3'-end . The relative positions of structures along a strand of nucleic acid, including genes, the orientation of a nucleic acid
- Directions (delegated legislation) An Act of Parliament or other delegated legislation may confer a power on a Minister to give Directions so as to enable that Minister to give instructions to a public body or group of public bodies which are not under the Minister's direct control. The directions thereby effectively convert instructions which would otherwise only have strong, a form of delegated legislation
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