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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orientation \O`ri*en*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. orientation.]
The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
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.
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.
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(Fig.): A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter.
--L. F. Ward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, originally "arrangement of a building, etc., to face east or any other specified direction," noun of action from orient (v.). Sense of "action of determining one's bearings" is from 1868. Meaning "introduction to a situation" is from 1942.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented. 2 (context uncountable English) A position relative to compass bearings 3 (context uncountable English) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end 4 (context countable English) An inclination, tendency or direction 5 (context countable English) The ability to orient 6 (context countable English) An adjustment to a new environment 7 (context countable English) An introduction to a (new) environment 8 (context typography countable English) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait 9 (context mathematics countable English) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
WordNet
n. 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; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" [syn: predilection, preference]
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 [syn: orientation course]
Wikipedia
Orientation may refer to:
- Map orientation, the relationship between directions on a map and compass directions
- Orientation (mental), a function of the mind
- Orientation (film), a 1996 short film produced by the Church of Scientology
- Orientation of churches is the architectural feature of facing ("orienting"), churches towards the east (Latin: oriens)
- Orientation (housing), the position of a building with respect to the sun, a concept in building design
- Student orientation, the first week of a university year in several countries
- Coin orientation and Medallic orientation, a description of the orientation of opposite faces of a coin with respect to one another
- Sexual orientation, the direction of an individual's sexuality with respect to the sex of the persons the individual finds sexually attractive
- Romantic orientation, the sex or gender with which a person is most likely to have a romantic relationship or fall in love.
- Orientation (EP), a 2001 album by Sonata Arctica
- Page orientation, the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing
- In Animal navigation, turning the body to a desired heading, e.g. in the correct direction of migration
- Orientation (sign language), the orientation of the hands when signing
In mathematics, orientation is a geometric notion that in two dimensions allows one to say when a cycle goes around clockwise or counterclockwise, and in three dimensions when a figure is left-handed or right-handed. In linear algebra, the notion of orientation makes sense in arbitrary finite dimension. In this setting, the orientation of an ordered basis is a kind of asymmetry that makes a reflection impossible to replicate by means of a simple rotation. Thus, in three dimensions, it is impossible to make the left hand of a human figure into the right hand of the figure by applying a rotation alone, but it is possible to do so by reflecting the figure in a mirror. As a result, in the three-dimensional Euclidean space, the two possible basis orientations are called right-handed and left-handed (or right-chiral and left-chiral).
The orientation on a real vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space, right-handed bases are typically declared to be positively oriented, but the choice is arbitrary, as they may also be assigned a negative orientation. A vector space with an orientation selected is called an oriented vector space, while one not having an orientation selected, is called .
"Orientation" is the first episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes and the 60th episode overall. The episode aired in the US on September 21, 2009. Produced and filmed as two separate episodes, the episode's title for the second hour was initially announced as "Jump, Push, Fall"; however, it aired as a single double-length episode.
In graph theory, an orientation of an undirected graph is an assignment of a direction to each edge, turning the initial graph into a directed graph.
In sign languages, orientation is the distinctive relative degree of rotation of the hand when signing. Orientation is one of five components of a sign, along with handshape , location , movement , and facial-body expression.
Orientation is a function of the mind involving awareness of three dimensions: time, place and person. Problems with orientation lead to disorientation, and can be due to various conditions, from delirium to intoxication. Typically, disorientation is first in time, then in place and finally in person.
In the context of an accident or major trauma, the Emergency Medical Responder performs spiraling (increasingly detailed) assessments which guide the critical first response. Assessment of mental orientation typically lands within the immediate top three priorities:
- Safety - Assess the area safety (potential traffic, fire, overhead/underfoot objects and collapse risks, rushing water, gunfire, chemical/radiation threats, storm conditions, downed power lines, etc.), wait for the threat to subside, or move the person to safety if and when possible, all without endangering oneself.
- ABCs - Note conscious or unconscious then assess Airway, Breathing and Circulation factors (with priority to any potential gross or debilitating blood loss.)
- Orientation - Determine if the person is "alert and oriented, times three (to person, place, and time)." This is frequently abbreviated A&Ox3 which also serves as a mnemonic. The assessment is best done right up front, ahead of moving or transporting the victim, because it may illuminate potential internal damage.
Mental orientation is closely related, and often intermixed with trauma shock, including physical shock (see: Shock (circulatory)) and mental shock (see: Acute stress reaction, a psychological condition in response to terrifying events.)
The exact cerebral region involved in orientation is uncertain, but lesions of the brain stem and the cerebral hemispheres have been reported to cause disorientation, suggesting that they act together in maintaining awareness and its subfunction of orientation.
In geometry the orientation, angular position, or attitude of an object such as a line, plane or rigid body is part of the description of how it is placed in the space it is in. Namely, it is the imaginary rotation that is needed to move the object from a reference placement to its current placement. A rotation may not be enough to reach the current placement. It may be necessary to add an imaginary translation, called the object's location (or position, or linear position). The location and orientation together fully describe how the object is placed in space. The above-mentioned imaginary rotation and translation may be thought to occur in any order, as the orientation of an object does not change when it translates, and its location does not change when it rotates.
Euler's rotation theorem shows that in three dimensions any orientation can be reached with a single rotation around a fixed axis. This gives one common way of representing the orientation using an axis–angle representation. Other widely used methods include rotation quaternions, Euler angles, or rotation matrices. More specialist uses include Miller indices in crystallography, strike and dip in geology and grade on maps and signs.
Typically, the orientation is given relative to a frame of reference, usually specified by a Cartesian coordinate system.
In computer vision and image processing a common assumption is that sufficiently small image regions can be characterized as locally one-dimensional, e.g., in terms of lines or edges. For natural images this assumption is usually correct except at specific points, e.g., corners or line junctions or crossings, or in regions of high frequency textures. However, what size the regions have to be in order to appear as one-dimensional varies both between images and within an image. Also, in practice a local region is never exactly one-dimensional but can be so to a sufficient degree of approximation.
Image regions which are one-dimensional are also referred to as simple or intrinsic one-dimensional (i1D).
Given an image of dimension d (d = 2 for ordinary images), a mathematical representation of a local i1D image region is
$f(\mathbf{x}) = g(\mathbf{x} \cdot \hat{\mathbf n})$
where f is the image intensity function which varies over a local image coordinate x (a d-dimensional vector), g is a one-variable function, and $\hat{\mathbf n}$ is a unit vector.
The intensity function f is constant in all directions which are perpendicular to $\hat{\mathbf n}$. Intuitively, the orientation of an i1D-region is therefore represented by the vector $\hat{\mathbf n}$. However, for a given f, $\hat{\mathbf n}$ is not uniquely determined. If
$\tilde{\mathbf n} = - \hat{\mathbf n}$
g̃(x) = g( − x)
then f can be written as
$f(\mathbf{x}) = \tilde{g}(\mathbf{x} \cdot \tilde{\mathbf n})$
which implies that $\tilde{\mathbf n} = - \hat{\mathbf n}$ also is a valid representation of the local orientation.
In order to avoid this ambiguity in the representation of local orientation two representations have been proposed
- The double angle representation
- The tensor representation
The double angle representation is only valid for 2D images (d=2), but the tensor representation can be defined for arbitrary dimensions d of the image data.
"Orientation" is the third episode of the second season of Lost and the 28th episode overall. The episode was directed by Jack Bender, and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Craig Wright. It first aired on October 5, 2005, on ABC.
Jack Shephard ( Matthew Fox), John Locke ( Terry O'Quinn) and Kate Austen ( Evangeline Lilly) learn about the mysterious hatch from Desmond Hume ( Henry Ian Cusick). On the other side of the island, Michael Dawson ( Harold Perrineau), James "Sawyer" Ford ( Josh Holloway) and Jin-Soo Kwon ( Daniel Dae Kim) are imprisoned by people they believe to be the " Others."
Usage examples of "orientation".
Tooe, its wasteful, almost pretentious insistence on nonexistent acceleration, with almost half her space sacrificed to a cramped up-down orientation.
In the meantime, Secretary Aspin would tell the military to stop asking recruits about their sexual orientation and to stop discharging homosexual men and women who had not been discovered to have committed a homosexual act, which was a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
An auburn-haired girl stood up in the third row, the same one who had gotten the better of Van Cott at orientation.
Intake forms and go through Orientation, and Gately goes over the House rules with her and gives her a copy of the Ennet House Survival Guide, which some resident years gone had written for Pat.
Another implication was that the master-builders of Teotihuacan must have possessed an enormous body of astronomic and geodetic data and referred to this data to set the Sun Pyramid at the precise orientation necessary to achieve the desired equinoctial effects.
People in hypnosis who discuss the type of counseling which goes on during orientation say their guides are gentle but probing.
Orientation conferences with our guides allow us to begin the long process of self-evaluation between lives.
In the quiet, relaxing state of hypnosis, with continuity on all mental levels, my subjects report that the initial orientation session with their guides prepares them to go before a panel of superior beings.
It was on the 2nd of April that Harding had employed himself in fixing the orientation of the island, or, in other words, the precise spot where the sun rose.
When we have come to the beach at night enough to notice, we can probably tell how far the night has advanced by its orientation -- though who cares about time at the beach?
On every womb-planet in the galaxy Rotational Orientation relative to the home star determines the direction of Migrating Intelligence.
Background of Mathematics IIBBStATISTICS and Orientation to Psychological Testingbbanda Practicum in Teaching Reading to the Mentally Retarded.
The staff holds orientation meetings for these rating committees, explains the forms used for ratine the textbooks, and then sends the books to the raters.
There are five more: spacial orientation and art, psychomotor skills and athletics, musical talent, an understanding of others and an ability to work with them, and an understanding of yourself and the ability to handle your own problems.
For a moment she felt the sun on his bare torso, the strength in his figure, a sense of balance which was the equal to her spacial orientation.