Crossword clues for alignment
alignment
- The act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- The spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- Group of malign men torpedo alliance with party
- Golf (new) parked amongst scrap metal in siding
- Straightening leg Tin Man bust
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alignment \A*lign"ment\, n. [F. alignement.]
The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
(Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1790, "arrangement in a line," from French alignement, from aligner (see align). Political sense is from 1933.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 An arrangement of items in a line. 2 The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted. 3 An alliance of factions. 4 (context astronomy English) The conjunction of two celestial objects. 5 (context transport English) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points. 6 (context gaming English) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take. 7 (bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
WordNet
n. an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alinement] [ant: nonalignment]
the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac [syn: conjunction]
the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
Wikipedia
In some role-playing games, alignment is a categorisation of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game.
Not all role-playing games have such a system, and some narrativist role-players consider such a restriction on their characters' outlook on life to be overly constraining. However, some regard a concept of alignment to be essential to role-playing, since they regard role-playing as an exploration of the themes of good and evil.
Alignment may refer to:
In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and creatures.
The original version of D&D allowed players to choose among three alignments when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society's rules; chaotic, implying rebelliousness and individualism; and neutral, seeking a balance between the extremes.
The 1977 release of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set introduced a second axis of good, implying altruism and respect for life, vs evil, implying selfishness and no respect for life. As with the law-vs-chaos axis, a neutral position exists between the extremes. Characters and creatures could be lawful and evil at the same time (such as a tyrant), or chaotic but good (such as Robin Hood).
The two axes allowed for nine alignments in combination. The nine alignments can be shown in a grid, as follows:
Lawful good
Neutral good
Chaotic good
Lawful neutral
(True) neutral
Chaotic neutral
Lawful evil
Neutral evil
Chaotic evil
An alignment in archaeology refers to a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks, in archaeoastronomy the term may refer to an alignment with an astronomically significant point or axis.
"Alignment" may also refer to circumstantial or secondary type of evidence used to infer archaeological association of archeological features, such as postholes, by virtue of their physical relationships rather than stratigraphic ones.
The Alignment (, translit. HaMa'arakh) is the name of two political alliances in Israel. Each of these Alignment parties later merged into what is now the Israeli Labor Party.
The first Alignment was a 1965 alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda. The two parties continued to exist independently, but submitted joint electoral lists. Often called the Labor Alignment, the alliance lasted three years until a merger with Rafi in 1968 created the unitary Israeli Labor Party.
The following year the Labor Party formed an alliance with Mapam, adopting the Alignment name. The two constituent parties remained separate, but with combined electoral campaigns and candidate lists. The second version of the Alignment lasted for more than two decades.
At its formation in 1969, the second Alignment had 63 of 120 Knesset seats, the only time a parliamentary group in Israel has ever held a parliamentary majority. Although their majority was lost in the 1969 elections, the 56 seats won by the Alignment remains the highest seat total won in an Israeli election.
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.