orientation

Meanings

Plural: orientations

Noun

• the act of orienting
• an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
• position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
• a predisposition in favor of something
  • "showed a Marxist orientation"
• a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
• a course introducing a new situation or environment
• 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.
• An adjustment to a new environment.
• An introduction 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.
• Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
• 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.

Synonyms

orientation course, predilection, preference

Antonyms

disorientation

Related Words

attraction, nonorientable, orient, orientable, orientalism, orientate, orienteer