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The act of orienting
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orientation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sexual orientation ▪ people of different sexual orientations COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE basic ▪ Despair is the basic life orientation that emerged in most of the cancer patients during psychotherapy. cultural ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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"; ...
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.