English Explanatory Dictionary

orientation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
  2. The relative physical position or direction of something.
  3. The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
  4. An inclination, tendency or direction.
  5. The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
  6. An adjustment to a new environment.
  7. An introduction to a (new) environment.
  8. Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
  9. The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
  10. Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
  11. The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
  12. The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

Pronunciation

/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orientation.wav

Word forms

orientation orientations

Etymology

From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.

Antonyms

disorientation

Related words

nonorientable orient orientable orientalism orientate orienteer attraction

Derived words

biorientation class-orientation coorientation family of orientation macro-level orientation malorientation micro-level orientation misorientation monoorientation multiorientation orientational orientation cage orientation camp orientation course orientationist orientation week photoorientation preorientation reorientation romantic orientation sexual orientation

Translations

Armenian: կողմնորոշում Bulgarian: ориентиране Bulgarian: ориентация Bulgarian: въведение Catalan: orientació Dutch: oriëntatie Dutch: oriëntering Dutch: plaatsbepaling Dutch: richting Dutch: voorlichting Finnish: suuntaaminen Finnish: suunta Finnish: perehdytys Finnish: orientaatio Greek: προσανατολισμός Greek: κατατοπισμός Hungarian: tájékozódás Hungarian: betájolás Italian: orientamento Italian: posizione Macedonian: ориенти́рање Macedonian: ориента́ција Portuguese: orientação Romanian: orientare Russian: ориентиро́вка Russian: ориенти́рование Russian: ориента́ция Spanish: orientación Tagalog: satungo Tagalog: lantangan Ukrainian: орієнта́ція Japanese: 方位 Japanese: 指導 Japanese: オリエンテーション Chinese Mandarin: 新生訓練 /新生训练 Korean: 오리엔테이션
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