CHANGE OF DIRECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change of direction mean? 

• CHANGE OF DIRECTION (noun)
  The noun CHANGE OF DIRECTION has 1 sense:

1. the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OF DIRECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OF DIRECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of changing the direction in which something is oriented

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

change of direction; reorientation

Hypernyms ("change of direction" is a kind of...):

change (the action of changing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "change of direction"):

turn (the act of turning away or in the opposite direction)

reversal; reverse; reversion; turnabout; turnaround (turning in the opposite direction)

change of course (a change in the direction that you are moving)

 Context examples 

In most tropical regions, two factors control the timing of the rainy season: monsoon winds (a seasonal change of direction in prevailing winds) and the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of converging trade winds around the equator that shifts north or south with the seasons.

(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)