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ORIENTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A course introducing a new situation or environment
Synonyms:
orientation; orientation course
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of orienting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
self-awareness (awareness of your own individuality)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A predisposition in favor of something
Example:
showed a Marxist orientation
Synonyms:
orientation; predilection; preference
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
predisposition (an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orientation"):
wavelength (a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding)
experimentalism (an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation)
reorientation (a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs)
perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)
orthodoxy (a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards)
heresy; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy (any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position)
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
religious orientation (an attitude toward religion or religious practices)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
Attribute:
horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)
perpendicular; vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orientation"):
attitude (position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion))
horizontal (something that is oriented horizontally)
vertical (something that is oriented vertically)
quarter (one of the four major division of the compass)
Context examples:
The patient orientation relative to the image plane, specified by a value that designates the anatomical direction of the positive column axis (top to bottom).
(Patient Orientation Column, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
The long axis of a lesion parallels the skin line ('wider-than-tall' or in a horizontal orientation).
(Parallel Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
Nucleotide transitions do not change the purine-pyrimidine orientation of a DNA sequence.
(Nucleotide Transition Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
Nucleotide transversions change the purine-pyrimidine orientation of a DNA sequence.
(Nucleotide Transversion Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
However, unless Makemake is in a special orientation, these dark patches should make the dwarf planet’s brightness vary substantially as it rotates.
(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)
Any type of genetic recombination involving rearrangement of segments of DNA within a single chromosome, such that a segment of the chromosome is reversed from the original orientation.
(Chromosomal Inversion Process, NCI Thesaurus)
Usually, these fields can vibrate at all orientations.
(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)
A specific type of protein in the AFD neurons, known as a TAX-4 cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channel, was required for magnetic orientation and vertical migration.
(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)
He was seeking a new orientation, and until that was found his life must stand still.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Yet again, in this new orientation, it was the thumb of circumstance that pressed and prodded him, softening that which had become hard and remoulding it into fairer form.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
