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orientation

noun
/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/US

Etymology

From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.

  1. borrowed from orientation

Definitions

  1. The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

  2. The relative physical position or direction of something.

  3. The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with…

    The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. An inclination, tendency or direction.

    2. The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.

      • The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.

    3. An adjustment to a new environment.

    4. An introduction to a (new) environment.

    5. The direction of print across the page

      The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

    6. Ellipsis of sexual orientation.

      • And now, I want to help other asexual people to embrace their orientation without an instilled core of self-doubt.

    7. The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively"…

      The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

    8. The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented

      The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at orientation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at orientation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at orientation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA