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Directive   /dərˈɛktɪv/  /dɪrˈɛktɪv/  /daɪrˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Directive

noun
1.
A pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity.
adjective
1.
Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on.  Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding.  "The directional role of science on industrial progress"



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"Directive" Quotes from Famous Books



... established on 26 July 1947 and officially began operating on 18 September 1947. Effective 1 October 1947, the Director of Central Intelligence assumed operational responsibility for JANIS. On 13 January 1948, the National Security Council issued Intelligence Directive (NSCID) No. 3, which authorized the National Intelligence Survey ( NIS ) program as a peacetime replacement for the wartime JANIS program. Before adequate NIS country sections could be produced, government agencies had to develop more comprehensive ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... to the rod opposite and equal polarities. At C we have the molecules arranged in a circular chain around the axis of a wire or rod through which an electric current has passed. At D we have the evident polarity induced by the earth's directive influence when a soft iron rod is held in the magnetic meridian. At E we have a longitudinal neutrality produced in the same rod when placed magnetic west, the polarity in ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various
... most attenuated light of the Aurora sensibly dimmed the stars, like a thin veil drawn over them. We frequently listened for any sound proceeding from this phenomenon, but never heard any. Our variation-needles, which were extremely light, suspended in the most delicate manner, and from the weak directive energy susceptible of being acted upon by a very slight disturbing force, were never in a single instance sensibly affected by the Aurora, which could scarcely fail to have been observed at some time or other, had any such disturbance ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry


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