Direction (disambiguation)
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Direction may refer to:
- Direction (geometry)
- Relative directionRelative directionThe 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...
, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down - Compass direction
- Relative 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 techniqueAlexander TechniqueThe Alexander Technique teaches the ability to improve physical postural habits, particularly those that have become ingrained and conditioned responses...
for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique - Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
- Direction (record label)Direction (record label)The Direction record label was a subsidiary label established by CBS Records in the UK in spring 1967. It primarily released American soul and R&B recordings in the UK, but also issued records by British and Jamaican artists. Among its most successful releases were those by Sly & the Family...
, a record label in the UK in the late 1960s, a subsidiary of CBS RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
, specialising in soul musicSoul musicSoul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of... - Direction (song), a 7" single by American indie rock band Heavens to Betsy
- Directions: The Plans Video AlbumDirections: The Plans Video AlbumDirections: 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...
, a DVD video album made of videos inspired by songs from indie rock/pop band Death Cab for Cutie's album Plans - Directed setDirected setIn mathematics, a directed set is a nonempty set A together with a reflexive and transitive binary relation ≤ , with the additional property that every pair of elements has an upper bound: In other words, for any a and b in A there must exist a c in A with a ≤ c and b ≤...
, in order theory - Directed graphDirected graphA directed graph or digraph is a pair G= of:* a set V, whose elements are called vertices or nodes,...
, in graph theory - "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet UnderSix Feet Under (soundtrack)Six Feet Under is a soundtrack album to the HBO television series Six Feet Under, released in 2002 on Universal Music.-Track listing:# Thomas Newman, "Six Feet Under Title Theme" * Plays at start of every episode....
soundtrack - For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conductingConductingConducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
- Direction (album)Direction (album)- Personnel :*Kenny Aronoff – drums*Howard Benson – keyboards, programming, producer*Justin Borucki – photography*Luis Conti – percussion*Paul DeCarli – digital editing*Mike Golla – guitar, vocals *Tom Gryskeiwitz – drums...
a 2007 album by The Starting Line - Directionality (molecular biology)Directionality (molecular biology)Directionality, in molecular biology and biochemistry, is 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 orientation of a nucleic acid - Directions (delegated legislation)Directions (delegated legislation)Directions are a form of delegated legislation used in the United Kingdom.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...
, a form of delegated legislation