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Orientation   /ˌɔriɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Orientation

noun
1.
The act of orienting.
2.
An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs.
3.
Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions.
4.
A predisposition in favor of something.  Synonyms: predilection, preference.  "His sexual preferences" , "Showed a Marxist orientation"
5.
A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships.
6.
A course introducing a new situation or environment.  Synonym: orientation course.



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"Orientation" Quotes from Famous Books



... magisterial districts. This method of election was adopted deliberately as a means of maintaining a balance of political representation of the western and southern parts of the County, which still were rural in their economic and social orientation, and the north, east and central areas of the County, which had been intensively developed as part of the suburbs of ...
— The Fairfax County Courthouse • Ross D. Netherton
... of orientation. Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people. Taking away the pull of gravity might be a lot worse. ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... thus to the end for want of a larger word, perhaps—a word to phrase the inner and the outer. Although the mountains were devoid of trails, he seemed always certain of his way. An absolute sense of orientation possessed him; or, rather, the whole earth became a single pathway. Her being, in and about their hearts, concealed no secrets; he knew the fresh, cool water-springs as surely as the corners where the wild honey gathered. It seemed as natural that the bees should leave them unmolested, ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... of the factors which enter into the orientation of the main axes of our bodies, under normal and abnormal conditions, has been of much interest to the psychologist in connection with the problem of the development of space and movement perception. The special points of attack ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various
... retaining wall of coursed masonry, nearly 10 ft. in thickness. On this terrace the palace was built, and it consisted of a series of open courts arranged unsymmetrically, surrounded by state or private apartments, storehouses, stables, &c. Great care seems to have been exercised in the accurate orientation of the building, but in rather a peculiar manner. Instead of any one facade of the building facing due north, the corners face exactly towards the four points of the compass. The courts were all entered by magnificent ...
— Architecture - Classic and Early Christian • Thomas Roger Smith


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