About The Word Orientation
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Orientation
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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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