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Directive   Listen
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Directive  adj.  
1.
Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. "The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God."
2.
Able to be directed; manageable. (Obs.) "Swords and bows Directive by the limbs."





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"Directive" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Directive" :   say-so, pronouncement, Presidential Directive, directing, guiding, direct, directional


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