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  2. Cardinal direction - Wikipedia

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    Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding.The most direct method is using a compass (magnetic compass or gyrocompass), but indirect methods exist, based on the Sun path (unaided or by using a watch or sundial), the stars, and satellite navigation.

  3. Direction-preserving function - Wikipedia

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    We focus on functions :, where the domain X is a finite subset of the Euclidean space .ch(X) denotes the convex hull of X.There are many variants of direction-preservation properties, depending on how exactly one defines the "drastic change" and the "adjacent points".

  4. Directional derivative - Wikipedia

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    In multivariable calculus, the directional derivative measures the rate at which a function changes in a particular direction at a given point. [citation needed]The directional derivative of a multivariable differentiable (scalar) function along a given vector v at a given point x intuitively represents the instantaneous rate of change of the function, moving through x with a direction ...

  5. Navier–Stokes equations - Wikipedia

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    In axisymmetric flow another stream function formulation, called the Stokes stream function, can be used to describe the velocity components of an incompressible flow with one scalar function. The incompressible Navier–Stokes equation is a differential algebraic equation , having the inconvenient feature that there is no explicit mechanism ...

  6. Direction determination - Wikipedia

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    Direction determination refers to the ways in which a cardinal direction or compass point can be determined in navigation and wayfinding.The most direct method is using a compass (magnetic compass or gyrocompass), but indirect methods exist, based on the Sun path (unaided or by using a watch or sundial), the stars, and satellite navigation.

  7. Semi-differentiability - Wikipedia

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    However, it has a right derivative at all points, with + constantly equal to 0. In mathematics, a left derivative and a right derivative are derivatives (rates of change of a function) defined for movement in one direction only (left or right; that is, to lower or higher values) by the argument of a function.

  8. Orientation (vector space) - Wikipedia

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    The vector space Λ n V (called the top exterior power) therefore has dimension 1. That is, Λ n V is just a real line. There is no a priori choice of which direction on this line is positive. An orientation is just such a choice. Any nonzero linear form ω on Λ n V determines an orientation of V by declaring that x is in the positive ...

  9. Translation (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In classical physics, translational motion is movement that changes the position of an object, as opposed to rotation.For example, according to Whittaker: [1] If a body is moved from one position to another, and if the lines joining the initial and final points of each of the points of the body are a set of parallel straight lines of length ℓ, so that the orientation of the body in space is ...