Directive
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Directive may refer to:
- Directive (European Union), a legislative act of the European Union
- Directive (poem), a highly-acclaimed poem by Robert Frost
- Directives, used by United States Government agencies (particularly the United States Department of Defense) to convey policies, responsibilities, and procedures
- Directive (programming)Directive (programming)In computer programming, the term directive is applied in a variety of ways that are similar to the term command. It is also used to describe some programming language constructs ....
in a computer program or associated with compiling a program - A particular kind of speech actSpeech actSpeech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin's doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts...
which causes the hearer to take a particular action