orientation
US/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
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Australia/ˌoː.ɹi.ənˈtæɪ.ʃən/
orientation noun: the determination of the relative position of something or someone. Also the ellipsis of sexual orientation.
Noun
orientation (countable and uncountable, plural orientations)
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- disorientation
- An adjustment 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.
- 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.
Also used as
orientation is also the ellipsis of sexual orientation.
orientation meaning in Tagalog
orientation in Tagalog
- the act of orienting
- satungo
- introduction to a new environment
- lantangan
Examples of orientation in a sentence
- The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
- Jason aspires to be one of the 45 orientation program surveillants.
- Analyses all required a planar mathematical discretization of a region containing a prescribed number of cells with prescribed orientations.
Antonyms of orientation
Forms of orientation
| plural | orientations |
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Origin of orientation
From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.
Words formed from orientation
- biorientation
- class-orientation
- coorientation
- family of orientation
- macro-level orientation
- malorientation
- micro-level orientation
- misorientation
- monoorientation
- multiorientation
- orientational
- orientation cage
- orientation camp
- orientation course
- orientationist
- orientation week
- photoorientation
- preorientation
- reorientation
- romantic orientation
- sexual orientation
Phrases with orientation
Words that rhyme with orientation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- citation
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- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
- attenuation
Questions about orientation
- What does orientation mean?
- Orientation means the determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- What is orientation in Tagalog?
- Orientation in Tagalog is satungo, lantangan. See Orientation meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is orientation?
- Orientation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce orientation?
- Orientation is pronounced /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/ (US).
- What is the plural of orientation?
- The plural of orientation is orientations.
Words near orientation in the dictionary
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