# direction (spatial)

a line that a thing points to as it goes

- Computed level: L13 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: direction  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [line](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-line.geometric), [points](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-points.location), [go](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-go.movement), [point of no return](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-point-of-no-return.irreversible)

**Through:** the line and the point together form where the thing goes, with movement establishing an irreversible transition along that path

**Novel properties:**
- oriented path
- irreversible progression
- directed intent

## Examples
- The Voyager 1 probe travels away from the Sun at 17 km/s, maintaining its course since 1977. *(spaceflight)*
- The Mississippi River flows south from Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico, carving its path over millennia. *(geography)*
- A gyroscope in the Hubble Space Telescope orients along a fixed axis, guiding observations for years. *(engineering)*

## Used by
- [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial) (L14)
- [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition) (L15)
- [below](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-below.spatial) (L14)
- [chance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chance.random) (L15)
- [comfortable](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-comfortable.central) (L14)
- [east](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-east.spatial) (L16)
- [front](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-front.spatial) (L15)
- [left](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-left.direction) (L16)
- [orientation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-orientation.spatial) (L14)
- [round](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-round.shape) (L14)
- [toward](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-toward.spatial) (L14)
- [trend](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trend.directional) (L14)
- [turn](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-turn.rotational) (L14)
- [west](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-west.direction) (L15)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-direction.spatial*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-direction.spatial.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*