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.
  • Direction (record label), a record label in the UK in the late 1960s, a subsidiary of CBS Records, specialising in soul music
  • 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
  • Directions (Miles Davis album), 1981
  • Directions (PC Quest album), 1992
  • Directions (Norman Blake album), 1978
  • "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet Under soundtrack

Other uses

  • Directions (film), a 2017 Bulgarian film
  • Film direction, the creative aspect of filmmaking
  • Stage direction, in theater
  • Writing direction, of writing systems
  • See Alexander technique for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique
  • Directions (delegated legislation), a form of delegated legislation
  • Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
  • Directionality (Cetanā), a mental factor in Buddhism

See also

  • Director (disambiguation)