guidance

noun

1. the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
2. advice or counseling, especially that provided for students choosing a course of study or preparing for a vocation.
3. supervised care or assistance, especially therapeutic help in the treatment of minor emotional disturbances.
4. something that guides.
5. the process by which the flight of a missile or rocket may be altered in speed and direction in response to controls situated either wholly in the projectile or partly at a base.

noun

1. leadership, instruction, or direction
2. 1. counselling or advice on educational, vocational, or psychological matters
   2. (as modifier)the marriage-guidance counsellor
3. something that guides
4. any process by which the flight path of a missile is controlled in flightSee also guided missile