About The Word Orientation

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Orientation

Orientation Meaning & Definition
Orientation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Orientation?

[n] a course introducing a new situation or environment
[n] the act of orienting
[n] a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
[n] a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"
[n] an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
[n] position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

Synonyms | Synonyms for Orientation: orientation course | predilection | preference

Related Terms | Find terms related to Orientation: acclimation | acclimatization | accommodation | accustoming | adaptation | adaption | adjustment | aim | alignment | arrangement | aspect | assimilation | attitude | azimuth | bearing | bearings | bent | breaking | breaking-in | briefing | case hardening | celestial navigation | conditioning | course | current | dead reckoning | direction | direction line | disorientation | domestication | drift | exposure | familiarization | fix | frontage | habituation | hardening | heading | helmsmanship | housebreaking | inclination | initiation | instruction | introduction | inurement | lay | layout | lie | line | line of direction | line of march | line of position | location | naturalization | navigation | pilotage | piloting | placement | placing | point | position | position line | positioning | preparation | quarter | radio bearing | range | run | seasoning | set | set-up | situation | steerage | steering | taming | tendency | tenor | track | training | trend | way

See Also | attitude | attitude | class | course | course of instruction | course of study | direction | emplacement | experimentalism | heresy | heterodoxy | horizontal | ideology | locating | location | mental attitude | orthodoxy | perspective | placement | political orientation | political theory | position | position | positioning | predisposition | quarter | religious orientation | reorientation | self-awareness | unorthodoxy | vertical | view | wavelength

Orientation In Webster's Dictionary

\O`ri*en*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. orientation.] 1. The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings. 2. The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis. 3. An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end. 4. Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement. The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter. --L. F. Ward.

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