orientation.
The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
Meaning & usage
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.
An inclination, tendency or direction.
The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
An adjustment to a new environment.
An introduction 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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der. Proto-Italic *oriōr Latin orior Latin orientembor. French orient Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French orienter Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French orientationbor. English orientation From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.
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