Orientation meaning

    ôr'ē-ĕn-tā'shən, -ən-
    Orientation is someone knowing where they are, the direction someone is facing or the way someone tends to go.

    An example of orientation is a person attending a training session for new employees.

    An example of orientation is a person facing west.

    An example of orientation is a man preferring to date men.

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    The position or change of position of an organism or part under a stimulus such as gravity or light.
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    Awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self.
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    (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
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    Familiarization with and adaptation to a situation or environment.
    • Awareness of one's environment as to time, space, objects, and persons.
    • A period or process of introduction and adjustment.
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    The construction of a church so that its longitudinal axis has an east-west direction with the main altar usually at the eastern end.
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    (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
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    (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings.
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    (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
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    (countable) The ability to orient.
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    (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
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    (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
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    (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
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    (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
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    The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
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    Location or position relative to the points of the compass.
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    The direction followed in the course of a trend, movement, or development.
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    A tendency of thought; a general inclination.

    A Marxist orientation.

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    Sexual orientation.
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    Awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self.
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    An orienting or being oriented.
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    A person's fundamental feelings about or responses to something.
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    The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
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    In typography, the direction of print across a page. See portrait and orientation agnostic.
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    Sexual orientation.
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    Origin of orientation

    • orient +"Ž -ation
      From Wiktionary

    Orientation Sentence Examples

    • It stood to the east of the latter, and had a different orientation, viz.

    • This result is inconsistent with the aether remaining at rest, unless we assume that the dimensions of the moving system depend, though to an extent so small as to be not otherwise detectable, on its orientation with regard to the aether that is streaming through it.

    • When they were all seated and attentive, she began with the orientation she had been memorizing for the last two weeks.

    • Before Carmen left, she invited them all to breakfast and orientation before the first ride in the morning.

    • He defined structure " as the manner of the mutual linking of the atoms in the molecule," but denied that any such structure could give information as to the orientation of the atoms in space.

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