allineation

English

Alternative forms

• alineation

Noun

allineation (countable and uncountable, plural allineations)

1. alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun

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   • C. A. Young

     the allineation of the two planets

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “allineation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)