Direct
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Direct may refer to:
- direct current, a direct flow of electricity
- direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify
- direct route or "direct service", a route that does not divert to a third location
- direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
- Direct (album), 1988 album by Vangelis
- DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform
- Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars
- DIRECT, a proposed Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle
In computing:
- direct access, a method of accessing data in a database
- direct connect, various methods of telecommunications and computer networking
- direct memory access, access to memory by hardware subsystems independently of the CPU
In mathematics:
- directed set, in order theory
- direct limit of (pre)sheaves