(biology) The intentional spreading of life through space, in order to colonize distant worlds and create new biospheres

plural of advance directive

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see direct, access. / (computing) Synonym of random access

(marketing) Marketing designed to generate an immediate response from consumers, where each consumer response (and purchase) can be measured and attributed to individual advertisements, and where there is no intermediary between buyer and seller.

Synonym of descendant

Of a motion picture, initially released on digital streaming platforms without prior showings in cinemas or on television.

simple past tense and past participle of co-direct

(algebra) A set of equivalence classes which partition the disjoint union of the members of a direct system; each equivalence class being a sort of “drainage basin” of the mappings (of the morphisms) of the direct system, if these are analogically considered as “rivers”. (If i<k,j<k in the indexing poset, then there exist f_ik:A_i→A_k and f_jk:A_j→A_k. If a_i∈A_i,a_j∈A_j such that f_ik(a_i)=f_jk(a_j) then a_i∼a_j. If k = j then f_jj(a_j)=a_j,f_ij(a_i)=a_j.)

(algebra) A set of algebraic structures (which are part of a concrete category; e.g., modules) and a set of morphisms between them (e.g., module homomorphisms) which all together form a small category which is the image of a covariant functor whose domain is a directed poset.

An ability to navigate.