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/tʃeɪndʒ əv dərˈɛkʃən/ Listen

Change of direction

noun

The act of changing the direction in which something is oriented. Synonym: reorientation.

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"Change of direction" Quotes from Famous Books

... importance of the results thus obtained by the slightest change of direction in the infant streamlets, furnishes an interesting type of the formation of human characters by habit. Every one of those notable ravines and crags is the expression, not of any sudden violence done to the ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... straight and the walls so smooth as to look like an artificial tunnel. The entrance is in plain view from a point 380 feet back, and the change of direction, even at that distance, is very slight. The saltpeter miners started at the entrance and removed all the earth lying from 3 to 6 feet higher than the present floor, which is nearly level. They carried their work along the surface of a stratum of gravel, sand, and clay, ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke

Words linked to "Change of direction" : reverse, turn, change, reversal, reversion, turnabout, change of course, turnaround