Meaning of ORIENTATION
| Pronunciation: | | `owreeen'teyshun
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- [n] a course introducing a new situation or environment
- [n] the act of orienting
- [n] a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
- [n] a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"
- [n] an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
- [n] position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
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| | Synonyms: | | orientation course, predilection, preference |
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| | See Also: | | attitude, attitude, class, course, course of instruction, course of study, direction, emplacement, experimentalism, heresy, heterodoxy, horizontal, ideology, locating, location, mental attitude, orthodoxy, perspective, placement, political orientation, political theory, position, position, positioning, predisposition, quarter, religious orientation, reorientation, self-awareness, unorthodoxy, vertical, view, wavelength | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O`ri*en*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. orientation.]
1. The act or process of orientating; determination of the
points of the compass, or the east point, in taking
bearings.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly
arrangement.
The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter.
--L. F. Ward.
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| | Definition: | | An organism's position relative to the direction of stream flow. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, aim, alignment, arrangement, aspect, assimilation, attitude, azimuth, bearing, bearings, bent, breaking, breaking-in, briefing, case hardening, celestial navigation, conditioning, course, current, dead reckoning, direction, direction line, disorientation, domestication, drift, exposure, familiarization, fix, frontage, habituation, hardening, heading, helmsmanship, housebreaking, inclination, initiation, instruction, introduction, inurement, lay, layout, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, line of position, location, naturalization, navigation, pilotage, piloting, placement, placing, point, position, position line, positioning, preparation, quarter, radio bearing, range, run, seasoning, set, set-up, situation, steerage, steering, taming, tendency, tenor, track, training, trend, way |
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