- For Wikipedia's headings guideline, see Wikipedia:Headings
The word heading has various meanings:
- It is synonymous with the related word Headline. This article deals with the general meaning of the term "synonym" A headline (sometimes termed a news hed) is text at the top of a Newspaper article indicating the nature of the article below it
- A heading is used to provide hierarchical information about other information. @@@ main@@@ - title Hierarchy@@@ keywords structure; sociology; information@@@ review@@@ - Headings can emphasize or tell people what information is where, such as a title or subtitle or topic at the top or beginning of a paragraph or letter or chapter. Headings are used in wiki, HTML, and other markup languages. Wikitext language or wiki markup is a Markup language that offers a simplified alternative to HTML and is used to write pages in HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure
- In navigation, a heading is the direction a person or vehicle is facing or pointing. Navigation is the process of reading and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another In Navigation, a course is the intended path of a vehicle over the surface of the Earth
- In some mining jargon, a heading is a communication tunnel which is being extended in a given direction. Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body
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heading
-noun
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter etc.
- (nautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
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