"external direction" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use it when describing something that is pointing or moving towards something outside of itself or its own direction. For example: - "The GPS provides external direction for the driver to follow." - "The compass needle shows external direction towards the north." - "The wind's external direction was blowing the leaves in all directions."
It appears to be important to scaffold self-directed learning by offering students social interaction and external direction from a personal mentor.
There is a crucial difference between movements you control and movements you make when you slavishly follow external direction.
In 1960 he became a founder member of the first external direction committee of the MPLA, and from 1962 organising secretary of the movement.
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute – prayer, contemplation, focus – is up to them.
Such synthetic systems were modeled after biological systems whose structure included all the necessary information to specify how a complex of different kinds of molecules would assemble and organize without external direction.
Placed in a self-referential frame at the cellular level, niche construction becomes a directing process towards common cellular aims and cooperative purposes operating at that scope and scale and can proceed without any external direction.
In the absence of an external direction-controlling process, the hexagonal and cubic phase well-defined leaf- and flower-like CdS nanocrystals were controlled obtained via adjusting the reaction duration or the concentration of surfactant.
It is necessary to be able to compensate for anomalous flow regimes within the sampler system, which can arise from changes to the external wind direction.
We investigate pollutant dispersion in a street canyon for an external wind direction parallel to the street axis, a case which has been poorly documented in the literature.
Our results show that, for a critical length of the street, ground level concentration can be higher than those observed in a street canyon whose axis is perpendicular to the external wind direction.
We model M T as a SW magnet of a magnetic easy axis canted by α = 55° from the external field direction, as discussed in Fig. 7c and d.
