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ALIGNING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aligning mean?
• ALIGNING (adjective)
The adjective ALIGNING has 1 sense:
1. causing to fall into line or into position
Familiarity information: ALIGNING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing to fall into line or into position
Synonyms:
aligning; positioning
Similar:
orientating; orienting (positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually)
Context examples
Finally, the three days that span January 25-27 can’t be beat with Neptune aligning with Venus in your fifth house of love.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
By aligning the time-based MEG results with higher resolution fMRI data, they were able to pinpoint specific brain areas involved in object-based attention.
(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)
The act of adjusting or aligning objects in relation to each other; the result of this activity.
(Alignment, NCI Thesaurus)
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