Direction
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Direction may refer to:
Body relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down
Anatomical terms of location for those used in anatomy
List of ship directions
Cardinal direction
Bearing (navigation)
Law
Jury directions, legal instructions given to the jury by the judge in a court of law in England and Wales and some other common law jurisdictions
Mathematics and science
Direction vector, a unit vector that defines a direction in multidimensional space
Direction of a subspace of a Euclidean or affine space
Directed set, in order theory
Directed graph, in graph theory
Directionality (molecular biology), the orientation of a nucleic acid
Music
For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conducting
Direction (album) a 2007 album by The Starting Line
Direction Records, a label began by Bobby Darin.
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