orientation
(noun) the act of orienting
orientation
(noun) a person’s awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
predilection, preference, orientation
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something; “a predilection for expensive cars”; “his sexual preferences”; “showed a Marxist orientation”
orientation
(noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
orientation
(noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
orientation (countable and uncountable, plural orientations)
(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
(countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
(countable) The ability to orient.
(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
(typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
(analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
(analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
• disorientation
Source: Wiktionary
O`ri*en*ta"tion, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine-free. Studies from the National Institute of Health (US) have shown that virtually all decaf coffee types contain caffeine. A 236-ml (8-oz) cup of decaf coffee contains up to 7 mg of caffeine, whereas a regular cup provided 70-140 mg.
