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Definition of "non-directional" []

  • In mathematics, scalar or undirected: thus velocity has direction, but speed is non-directional.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "non-directional" in a sentence
  • "The global illumination was simply an overall, non-directional background light, to stop the shadows being pitch black."
  • "In 2005 they used high-power ‘Luxeon’ LEDs, i.e. non-coherent sources, combined with a large Fresnel lens to collimate the non-directional light emitted, and managed two-way audio communications over a distance of 160 km (100 miles!) between mountaintops in Tasmania."
  • "When using some types of inferential statistics the alternative hypothesis may be directional or non-directional."
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