orientation

noun orientations

1. countable The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
2. countable The relative physical position or direction of something.
3. uncountable The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
4. countable An inclination, tendency or direction.
5. countable The ability to orient, or the process of so doing. The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.

   Opposite: disorientation

6. countable An adjustment to a new environment.
7. countable An introduction to a (new) environment.
8. countable, uncountable Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
9. countable The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
10. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of sexual orientation And now, I want to help other asexual people to embrace their orientation without an instilled core of self-doubt.
11. countable The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
12. analytic, countable The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.