Sense of direction

Sense of direction stands for:

• an ability of living beings to move in the direction of a destination, see spatial orientation
• the direction along the axis of a vector
• the convention regarding the direction in which a scalar variable in electrical engineering has a positive sign, see sense of direction (electrical engineering)
  • in particular, in which direction a current with a positive sign of the current intensity flows, see electrical current direction
• the direction of displaceable forces along their line of action in technical mechanics, see statics of rigid bodies # force
• the direction of passage of a parameterized curve, see curve (mathematics) #direction

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.