Directionality is an English word with synonyms like directivity or spatiality. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Directionality in a sentence
Directionality meaning
- The condition of being directional.
- A measure of the extent to which something is directional.
Synonyms of Directionality
Using Directionality
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being directional. | A measure of the extent to which something is directional.
- Useful related words include: directivity, radial asymmetry, spatial property, spatiality.
- In the example corpus, directionality often appears in combinations such as: the directionality, directionality of, directionality for.
Context around Directionality
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Directionality
- In this selection, "directionality" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, provides, given, confer, holds, matching and main stand out and add context to how "directionality" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a given directionality and achieve reasonable directionality frequencies below. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "directionality" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with directionality
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The directionality of the backlog, that's the big wild card. (11 words)
The weak directionality only applies to the placement of the number in its entirety. (14 words)
While the absolute level of the copper/gold ratio may not be crucial, its directionality holds significance. (17 words)
The energetics of this process may also help explain the directionality of synthesis—if DNA were synthesized in the 3' to 5' direction, the energy for the process would come from the 5' end of the growing strand rather than from free nucleotides. (43 words)
Preliminary results from the presently operating Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on board the International Space Station show that positrons in the cosmic rays arrive with no directionality, and with energies that range from 10 GeV to 250 GeV. (39 words)
To achieve reasonable directionality, frequencies below 1 kHz generally require large size, usually achieved as towed arrays. citation Low frequency sonars are loosely defined as 1–5 kHz, albeit some navies regard 5–7 kHz also as low frequency. (39 words)
Example sentences (17)
The directionality of the backlog, that's the big wild card.
While the absolute level of the copper/gold ratio may not be crucial, its directionality holds significance.
It is the first of its kind mapping application using react native that provides not just location but navigation with directionality, matching the experience of native iOS and Android maps.
After a CDK-cyclin complex has performed its function, the associated cyclin is polyubiquitinated and destroyed by the proteasome, which provides directionality for the cell cycle.
Algorithms have been developed to systematically determine the skeleton of the underlying graph and, then, orient all arrows whose directionality is dictated by the conditional independencies observed.
Directionality has consequences in DNA synthesis, because DNA polymerase can synthesize DNA in only one direction by adding nucleotides to the 3' end of a DNA strand.
Directionality main Traffic going in opposite directions should be separated in such a way that they do not block each other's way.
Generally, the lower frequencies have longer range, while the higher frequencies offer better resolution, and smaller size for a given directionality.
If a step is at equilibrium (ΔG is zero), the enzyme catalyzing the reaction will balance the products and reactants and cannot confer directionality to the pathway.
Other languages' writing systems can have different directionality ; for example, in Japanese, paragraphs are often printed in downward columns, with the columns running from right to left, so "after" in that case would be to the left.
Preliminary results from the presently operating Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on board the International Space Station show that positrons in the cosmic rays arrive with no directionality, and with energies that range from 10 GeV to 250 GeV.
Snooker cloth traditionally has a nap (consistent fiber directionality) and balls behave differently when rolling against versus along with the nap.
The directionality is more pronounced in the vertical dimension, yielding a radiation pattern that is wide but not tall.
The energetics of this process may also help explain the directionality of synthesis—if DNA were synthesized in the 3' to 5' direction, the energy for the process would come from the 5' end of the growing strand rather than from free nucleotides.
The weak directionality only applies to the placement of the number in its entirety.
Thus, while the skeletons (the graphs stripped of arrows) of these three triplets are identical, the directionality of the arrows is partially identifiable.
To achieve reasonable directionality, frequencies below 1 kHz generally require large size, usually achieved as towed arrays. citation Low frequency sonars are loosely defined as 1–5 kHz, albeit some navies regard 5–7 kHz also as low frequency.
Common combinations with directionality
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the directionality 5×
- directionality of 4×
- directionality for 2×
- directionality is 2×
- directionality and 2×