Word for position and direction

I'm looking for a word that encapsulates both an object's position and direction.

Similar words:

  • a "point" has just a position.
  • a "vector" has a direction and magnitude
  • an "orientation" has just a direction

I'm ideally looking for a short simple word, however I'm also interested in any mathsey words which may describe the concept.


In robotics, computer vision and mechanics, pose of an object refers to combination of its position and orientation.

Note that aforementioned word perhaps makes sense in science community and not necessarily in normal daily conversations (the question has mathematics tag after all!).

See als roto-translation and homogeneous transformation.


A ray is a mathematical term that specifies a position and direction without magnitude--and in only 3 letters.