Yönlü

Yönlü is a Turkish adjective meaning directional or oriented toward a particular direction. It is formed from yön, meaning direction, and the suffix -lü, which indicates a characteristic or property. The term is used across everyday language and technical contexts to describe objects, phenomena, or processes whose behavior depends on orientation or direction.

In practical usage, yönlü appears in phrases such as yönlü hareket (movement with a preferred direction), yönlü ışın or yönlü antena (a beam or antenna that concentrates energy in a specific direction), and yönlü kuvvet (a force acting along a particular axis). In engineering, electronics, and sensing technologies, components described as yönlü are typically contrasted with isotropic or direction-independent counterparts.

In science, the concept of directional properties aligns with discussions of anisotropy, where material or system responses vary with direction. While the Turkish term for anisotropy is more specialized, yönlü conveys the everyday and technical sense of directionally dependent behavior.

Yönlü is commonly used in Turkish technical vocabularies, including terms like yönlü sensör, yönlü kamera, and yönlü iletişim, reflecting its utility in describing devices and methods that rely on orientation or aimed effects. There is no widely recognized standalone entity named Yönlü in major reference works; the term is primarily a descriptive adjective rather than a proper noun. See also directional, orientational, anisotropic.