Definition of Directivity

1. Noun. The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another. "The antenna received signals with no directivity"

Exact synonyms: Directionality
Generic synonyms: Radial Asymmetry
Derivative terms: Directional

2. Noun. The quality of being directive.
Exact synonyms: Directiveness
Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Directive, Directive

Definition of Directivity

1. Noun. (geology) The effect of earthquake motion propagation being greater in the direction of the rupture ¹

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Definition of Directivity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Directivity

directional antenna
directional atherectomy
directional cloning
directional stability
directionality
directionally
directionals
directionless
directionlessly
directionlessness
directions
directive
directive psychotherapy
directives
directivities
directivity (current term)
directly proportional
directness
directnesses
director
director's cut
director's cuts
director-general
director-stockholder relation
director of research
directorate
directorates
directorial
directorially

Literary usage of Directivity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"directivity.—We have found that the successive stages of subject activity are teleologically related. Beginning in this section with subject activity, ..."

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