noun Download 🔗Share The determination of the relative position of something or someone. Examples : "The robot's orientations needed to be carefully programmed so it could pick up the correct items in the factory. " position direction attitude Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The relative physical position or direction of something. Examples : "The different orientations of the furniture in the room made it difficult to walk through. " direction position Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end. Examples : "The church's orientations are important for the community, ensuring the altar faces east, in accordance with their religious traditions. " architecture religion tradition theology direction Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An inclination, tendency or direction. Examples : "The teacher explained the different orientations of the students towards their project. " attitude direction tendency position Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The ability to orient. Examples : "The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation." ability mind physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An adjustment to a new environment. Examples : "The new student felt more comfortable after attending the school's orientations, which helped her understand the rules and find her classes. " environment attitude education Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An introduction to a (new) environment. Examples : "The new employees attended two days of orientations to learn about the company's policies and meet their colleagues. " environment organization education Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait. Examples : ""For the report, we need both orientations: portrait for the text and landscape for the graphs." " writing direction computing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space. Examples : "In linear algebra, choosing the orientations for our basis vectors essentially dictates whether we view a rotation as clockwise or counter-clockwise. " math physics space Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface. Examples : "The different orientations of the curve on the graph, clockwise or counterclockwise, changed the sign of the calculated area. " math physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading