An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

Usage examples of alignment.

It seems that a special alignment of the planets would open a vortex to the Void that night, releasing Abraxas and his Demon Horde.

So they continued to dig into the exposed guts on the Krang without disturbing a single wire from its proper place, treading with the utmost care lest they nudge some vital circuit from its proper alignment.

It was Saturday, universal shopping-day in the farmland, and a ramshackle line of rustic vehicles--buggies, democrats, sulkies, lumber wagons--with graceless plough horses slumbering in the thills, stretched in ragged alignment down the curb.

He had instructed Brewster in the use of the matched revolvers, giving him a short lecture on gun safety, proper sight alignment, trigger control, and so forth, and Brewster had turned in a game, if not quite adequate performance.

Or, to reverse tacks: does this scene along with the other examples of female masochism underscore the alignment Freud makes between femininity and masochism that Silverman critiques?

This phenomenon involves the rotation of the Sun and the subsequent appearance of a powerful sunspot that comes into alignment with the Earth.

She witters on about how I have some star lines in sympathetic alignment with the dolphins.

The quaddie piloting the pusher, a dark-haired, copper-skinned girl named Zara in the purple T-shirt and shorts of the pusher crews, brought her ship smartly into alignment and clicked it delicately into the clamps on the landing spoke.

Within minutes the vortex mirror was fitted into its insulated clamps, its alignment checked.

As Captain Lewis had asked of them, they did the memory of their Camp Mangum days proud, keeping their alignment and distance from one another with an ease that bespoke their two years of practice in the field.

One quick swipe would knock its microcameras out of alignment, and probably destroy the fine tuning on its coordination.

A displacement of the assemblage point beyond the midline of the cocoon of man makes the entire world we know vanish from our view in one instant, as if it had been erased--for the stability, the substantiality, that seems to belong to our perceivable world is just the force of alignment.

It had to be done millimeter by millimeter, millimicron by millimicron, so that all the necessary structures were properly exposed and accessible for precise alignment.

As first kisses went, it was kind of a nonevent, but no noses ended up out of alignment, no teeth got cracked, and Kris seemed, if not enthusiastic, at least receptive.

Unfolding the alignment arms, she took angle sightings on the horizon, on Ophir, the polestar, and the planet Amaterasu.