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/ˈôrēˌənt/,/ˈôrēˌent/,
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orients, 3rd person singular present; oriented, past tense; oriented, past participle; orienting, present participle;
  1. Align or position (something) relative to the points of a compass or other specified positions
    • - the fires are oriented in direct line with the midsummer sunset
  2. Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs
    • - magazines oriented to the business community
    • - market-oriented economic reforms
  3. Guide (someone) physically in a specified direction

  4. Find one's position in relation to new and strange surroundings
    • - there are no street names that would enable her to orient herself
  1. adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination; "the house had its large windows oriented toward the ocean view"; "helping freshmen become oriented to college life"; "the book is value-oriented throughout"
  2. (orientation) the act of orienting
  3. (orientation) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
  4. (orientation) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
  5. (orientation) predilection: a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"
  6. (orientation) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
  7. In mathematics, orientability is a property of surfaces in Euclidean space measuring whether or not it is possible to make a consistent choice of surface normal vector at every point. ...
  8. (Orientation (album)) Orientation is Sonata Arctica's second EP released on August 22, 2001 through the label Spinefarm Records.
  9. (Orientation (computer vision)) In computer vision and image processing a common assumption is that sufficiently small image regions can be characterized as locally one-dimensional, e.g., in terms of lines or edges. ...
  10. (Orientation (housing)) In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, and distribute solar energy in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. ...
  11. (Orientation (Lost)) "Orientation" is the third episode of the second season of Lost and the 28th episode overall. The episode was directed by Jack Bender, and written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Craig Wright. It first aired on October 5, 2005 on ABC.
  12. (Orientation (mathematics)) In mathematics, an orientation on a real vector space is a choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented. ...
  13. having a specific orientation
  14. (Orientation) the alignment of the crystalline structure in polymeric materials so as to produce a highly uniform structure. Orientation can be accomplished by cold drawing or stretching during fabrication.
  15. (orientation) The alignment of a building along a given axis to face a specific geographical direction. The alignment of a solar collector, in number of degrees east or west of true south
  16. (orientation) Printing in the direction of a sheet's long or short edge. Printing parallel to the sheet's long edge is called landscape. Printing in the direction of the sheet's short edge is called portrait.
  17. (Orientation) A term used to describe the direction that a solar module faces. The two components of orientation are the tilt angle (the angle the panel makes from the horizontal) and the aspect angle (the angle the panel makes from North).
  18. (Orientation) activities and programs designed to help the new student become acquainted with the University.
  19. Orientation is the position in free space and is commonly identified as portrait/landscape. An accelerometer’s response to Earth’s gravitational field can be used to determine orientation.
  20. (Orientation) Alignment of an array with respect to north.
  21. (Orientation) the alignment of bars and spaces to the scanner. Often referred to as vertical (picket-fence) or horizontal (ladder).
  22. (Orientation) Information sessions designed to help students learn their way around the college. Orientations are offered in person and on the college website.
  23. (Orientation) Programs to help new students and parents get to know a college. Orientation usually takes place before or at the beginning of the academic year.
  24. (Orientation) The rotational state of an object relative to a set of reference axes. The orientation of an object free to move in three dimensions has 3 components, sometimes referred to as pan, tilt and roll.
  25. (Orientation) The introduction of a new employee to the organization and his/her job.