direct
(adjective)
Straight, constant, without interruption.
Examples of direct in the following topics:
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Direct Selling
- Peddling is the oldest form of direct selling.
- The United States Direct Selling Association (DSA) reported that in 2000, 55 percent of adult Americans had at some point purchased goods or services from a direct selling representative, and 20 percent reported that they were currently (6 percent) direct selling representatives or had been in the past (14 percent).
- Most national direct selling associations are represented in the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA).
- Direct selling is distinct from direct marketing because it is about individual sales agents reaching and dealing directly with clients.
- According to Direct Selling News, the largest direct selling companies by 'revenue in 2011' were:
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Direct Marketing
- Direct marketing goes direct to customers via telephone, mail, fax, TV, radio, online, magazines, newspapers or face-to-face.
- In 2010, direct marketing accounted for 8.3% of the total U.S. gross domestic product.
- Direct marketing targets individual members of defined consumer groups.
- There are many different direct marketing tools, including direct mail, telemarketing, couponing, direct response TV and radio, face-to-face selling, community campaigns, and grassroots campaigns.
- Direct marketing response is track-able and measurable regardless of the delivery medium.
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Variations in Directness
- Use force and directness to add dynamic contrast and texture to your speech.
- Directness is a state of being straight, constant, and without interruption.
- As you can see, force and directness can be both cause and effect.
- Certain ideas in your speech may lend themselves to force and directness.
- Don't be shy about using force or directness with your audience.
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Direct Lobbying
- A common use of direct lobbying is to persuade the general public about a ballot proposal.
- Communications regarding a ballot measure are also considered direct lobbying.
- Direct lobbying is different from grassroots lobbying, a process that uses direct communication with the general public, which, in turn, contacts and influences the government.
- Meta-analysis reveals that direct lobbying is often used alongside grassroots lobbying.
- Senate and House of Representatives are subject to direct lobbying tactics by lobbyists.
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Direction of the Magnetic Force: The Right Hand Rule
- The right hand rule is used to determine the direction of the magnetic force on a positive charge.
- There is a clever way to determine this direction using nothing more than your right hand .
- The right hand rule states that: to determine the direction of the magnetic force on a positive moving charge, ƒ, point the thumb of the right hand in the direction of v, the fingers in the direction of B, and a perpendicular to the palm points in the direction of F.
- The force is in the direction you would push with your palm.
- Apply the right hand rule to determine the direction of the magnetic force on a charge
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Online Direct Banks
- A direct bank is a bank without any branch network.
- Direct banks were originally based on providing banking services via telephone.
- One of the world's first fully functional direct banks was First Direct, which launched in the United Kingdom on October 1, 1989.
- First Direct pioneered the concepts of no branches and 24-hour service from a call center.
- One of the first fully functional direct banks in the United States was the Security First Network Bank (SFNB).
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Force at an Angle to Displacement
- As we increase the force's angle with respect to the direction of motion, less and less work is done along the direction that we are considering; and more and more work is being done in another, perpendicular, direction of motion.
- Instead, we are doing work in another direction!
- The other 29% is acting along the y-direction.
- The work done in the x direction will be zero.
- When along the same direction, they equal one.
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Scalars vs. Vectors
- Vectors require two pieces of information: the magnitude and direction .
- Vectors require both a magnitude and a direction.
- In order to specify a direction, there must be something to which the direction is relative.
- Scalars differ from vectors in that they do not have a direction.
- Vectors are usually represented by arrows with their length representing the magnitude and their direction represented by the direction the arrow points.
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Direct Variation
- When two variables change proportionally, or are directly proportional, to each other, they are said to be in direct variation.
- When two variables change proportionally to each other, they are said to be in direct variation.
- Direct variation is easily illustrated using a linear graph.
- Graph of direct variation with the linear equation y=0.8x.
- The line y=kx is an example of direct variation between variables x and y.
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Angular Quantities as Vectors
- The direction of these quantities is inherently difficult to track—a point on a rotating wheel is constantly rotating and changing direction.
- The direction of angular momentum and velocity can be determined along this axis.
- Using this right hand rule, the direction of angular velocity ω and angular momentum L are defined as the direction in which the thumb of your right hand points when you curl your fingers in the direction of the disc's rotation.
- The direction of angular velocity ω size and angular momentum L are defined to be the direction in which the thumb of your right hand points when you curl your fingers in the direction of the disk's rotation as shown.
- Identify the direction of a vector using the Right Hand Rule