direction
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5. Often directions An instruction or series of instructions for doing or finding something.
6. An authoritative indication; an order or a command.
7. a. The distance-independent relationship between two points in space that specifies the angular position of either with respect to the other; the relationship by which the alignment or orientation of any position with respect to any other position is established. b. A position to which motion or another position is referred. c. A line leading to a place or point. d. The line or course along which a person or thing moves.
8. The statement in degrees of the angle measured between due north and a given line or course on a compass.
9. A course or area of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal: charting a new direction for the company.
[Middle English, arrangement, from Latin dīrēctiō, dīrēctiōn-, from dīrēctus past participle of dīrigere, to direct. See
direc