orientation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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orientation (countable and uncountable; plural orientations)
- (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
- (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
- (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
- (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
- (countable) The ability to orient
- (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
- (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
- (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
- (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
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position relative to compass bearings
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the oriented construction of a Christian church
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an inclination, tendency or direction
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ability to orient
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introduction to a new environment
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adjustment to a new environment
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the direction of print across the page
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(mathematics)
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French [edit]
Noun [edit]
orientation f (plural orientations)