alignment

Meanings

Plural: alignments

Noun

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
• the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
• (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
• the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
• An arrangement of items in a line.
• The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
• An alliance of factions.
• The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
• One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
• The conjunction of two celestial objects.
• The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
• A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
• ground plan of a canal or road

Synonyms

alinement, alliance, coalition, conjunction

Antonyms

nonalignment