The act or function of directing. Management, supervision, or guidance of an action or operation. The art or action of musical or theatrical directing. Music A word or phrase in a score indicating how a passage is to be played or sung. An instruction or series of instructions for doing or finding something. Often used in the plural. An authoritative indication; an order or command. 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. A position to which motion or another position is referred. A line leading to a place or point. The line or course along which a person or thing moves. The statement in degrees of the angle measured between due north and a given line or course on a compass. A course or area of development; a tendency toward a particular end or goal: charting a new direction for the company.