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orientation

[awr-ee-uhn-tey-shuhn, -en-, ohr-]

noun

the act or process of orienting.

the state of being oriented.

an introduction, as to guide one in adjusting to new surroundings, employment, activity, or the like: New employees receive two days of orientation.

Psychology, Psychiatry. the ability to locate oneself in one's environment with reference to time, place, and people.

one's position in relation to true north, to points on the compass, or to a specific place or object.

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the ascertainment of one's true position, as in a novel situation, with respect to attitudes, judgments, etc.

Chemistry.

the relative positions of certain atoms or groups, especially in aromatic compounds.

the determination of the position of substituted atoms or groups in a compound.

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Origin:
1830–40; orientate + -ion

Related forms

o·ri·en·ta·tive, adjective

non·o·ri·en·ta·tion, noun

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Orientation has a plethora of syllables.

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Example Sentences

Listening to my peers and leaders speak at orientation was nothing short of inspiring.

In my day, freshman orientation was a rather sloppy deal.

To belittle genocide so flippantly speaks a lot about your depth of character and possibly your political orientation.

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Listening to my peers and leaders speak at orientation was nothing short of inspiring.

In my day, freshman orientation was a rather sloppy deal.

To belittle genocide so flippantly speaks a lot about your depth of character and possibly your political orientation.

Have pairs draw orientation lines on the drawing paper.

Bats, along with other animals that employ echolocation, rely on their ears more than their eyes for orientation and navigation.

As a bonus, you can rotate its face with a twisty two-finger gesture, making it work for you in any orientation.

The bouncers, who are students, delicately keep parents at bay during orientation sessions as incoming students consult.

Adjusting font size, set contrast, and lock orientation.

With no gravity cues, they rely on what they see for spatial orientation.

The galaxy orientation might help, depending on where your new friends came from and perhaps their visual spectral range.

The orientation of each screen is dependent upon the direction from which you approach it.

Applicants should be interested in a department with a strong social justice orientation in both theory and practice.

It has a strong research focus and a good international orientation.

The bat uses these reflected signals for orientation and as part of its sonar system to detect food.

It is crucial to have the proper orientation of the seams on the ball as the ball travels through the air.

The trick for locating the position of the hidden sun is to detect polarization, the orientation of light waves along their path.

The civic and moral dimensions also are diminished by the powerful market-based orientation to economic and social problems.

The orientation of these needles can then be used to store information.

No matter what he did, the tiny horde-15 million bacteria can inhabit a drop of water-congregated in the same orientation.

What is completely missing is describing how the researchers determined their subjects political orientation.

Orientation could be difficult, owing to the volatile weather conditions.

Until now, the approach has been to try to grow all of the tubes in the correct orientation to start with.

Scientists think that the regional difference can be explained by the geographic orientation of each continent's mountains.

They even define their own orientation in relation to the orientation of the surrounding landscape.

The unit quickly swivels between portrait and landscape orientation.

Poland's orientation towards the west has deep roots, moreover.

Each street follows one general direction-north-south for example-allowing for easier navigation and better orientation.

The orientation of the dunes suggests the wind must come predominantly from the northwest.

In the rotating coil, the magnetic flux changes because the orientation changes.

The lack of commercial orientation frequently means that too many employees throughout the company are unproductive.

The outcome showed that students' reactions to the nonpolitical target words were affected by their political orientation.

If they are meant to be printed in a specific orientation, make sure they have that orientation.

The programme starts with a one-week orientation and foundation session.

To do the experiment, you don't need to know which orientation of your polarizer is horizontal and which vertical.

The players could rotate around so that their heads are not in the same orientation.

The programme starts with an orientation and a one-month introduction to basic business principles.

Some colleges and universities offer some form of freshman orientation in the summer.

Could you describe the orientation north-south, bow-stern of.

The orientation of hundreds of galactic pairs provides a new test of the standard.

The hand orientation is forgivable, its a detail issue in a lot of ways, but the lack of feathers is unforgivable.

Its guts sense orientation and motion and use those movements to modify the playback of sounds.

The bride and bridegroom met at a freshman orientation gathering.

Third-party vendors sell orientation sessions, curricula for first-year-experience courses, training and support for.

On the fourth day, both groups were tested on how proficient they had become at identifying the orientation of the diagonal bars.

The first day of orientation in my doctoral program is still a blur.

Margusity said that changes in the orientation of the flag further supports the idea that it was a gustnado that came through.

Some of the tiles are not in the correct orientation though, that would be simple.

The animals flailed as if struggling to maintain their orientation and quickly jetted to the water surface.

And there is no up or down in weightlessness, so you need to figure out which orientation visually works best for you.

The orientation ofthe incident energy with respect to the orientation ofthe animal is also important.

By combining their signals, however, cells in the second area can respond to corners or bars in any orientation.

However, magnets placed on your back seem to disrupt your initial orientation under an overcast sky-though you make it home.

Changing the orientation of the nanostructures with an external magnetic field helps produce the change in color of the beads.

The meticulous approach, perfect execution and a strong goal orientation.

The fix, now posted on the iTunes store page, is to start up the app in portrait orientation.

The small limbs' orientation may have made them useless for snatching prey or digging burrows.

Supposedly the earth's magnetic field has flipped orientation before.

There are other problems with incorporating touch gestures on laptops, regardless of their orientation.

The tubular design and angular teeth orientation bites hard into ice and sets well.

The cat and the human were buried together and in the same orientation.

Then came a succession of smaller impulses, some arising from turbulence, others from changes in the ship's spatial orientation.

Deouell and his team performed a series of experiments, each involving a different distraction and orientation of sounds.

Maybe one needs to visual a infinite number of webs at every possible orientation to the ball.

After a brief orientation the morning of his travel he was.

If you can define the orientation of a plane, you can also define the orientation of another plane that is perpendicular to.

The robot also has a gyroscope that uses a laser to precisely measure changes in its orientation.

Since you can't rotate pieces, their available orientation gives a hint as to how to use them.

The setae are quite flexible, and it seems that the gecko can change their orientation and strain.

Graphical features that arise for perceptual facility include symmetry and orientation to the horizontal and vertical axes.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

orientation (ˌɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act or process of orienting or the state of being oriented
2.	position or positioning with relation to the points of the compass or other specific directions
3.	the adjustment or alignment of oneself or one's ideas to surroundings or circumstances
4.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) Also called: orientation course
	a. a course, programme, lecture, etc, introducing a new situation or environment
	b. (as modifier): an orientation talk
5.	psychol the knowledge of one's own temporal, social, and practical circumstances in life
6.	basic beliefs or preferences: sexual orientation
7.	biology the change in position of the whole or part of an organism in response to a stimulus, such as light
8.	chem the relative dispositions of atoms, ions, or groups in molecules or crystals
9.	the siting of a church on an east-west axis, usually with the altar at the E end

orien'tational

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

orientation

1839, originally "arrangement of a building, etc., to face east or any other specified direction," from from orient (v.). Sense of "the action of determining one's bearings" is from 1868.

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Medical Dictionary

orientation o·ri·en·ta·tion (ôr'ē-ěn-tā'shən, -ən-)
n.

The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
Location or position relative to the points of the compass.
The relative position of one atom with respect to another to which it is connected.
Sexual orientation.
Introductory instruction concerning a new situation.
Awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self.

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