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orientation
/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
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What does orientation mean?
noun
- The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- The relative physical position or direction of something.
- The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
More meanings (9)
noun
- An inclination, tendency or direction.
- The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
- An adjustment to a new environment.
- An introduction to a (new) environment.
- Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
- The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
- The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
- The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
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Becoming a form of religious belief, they profoundly modified the orientation of the sentiments and ideas of several generations.
In the orientation of the winds that rule the seas, the north and south directions are of no importance.
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Science, it is said, only maintains those principles and presuppositions which are necessary to the simplest and clearest orientation in the world of experience.
Each Party shall establish at least one contact point to provide the information regarding the training and orientation programs pertaining to its government procurement system.
She attached great importance to orientation, and seemed quite ill at ease in finding her way about when not absolutely sure of directions.