ORIENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orientation mean? 

• ORIENTATION (noun)
  The noun ORIENTATION has 6 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: ORIENTATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of orienting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orientation"):

wavelength (a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding)

experimentalism (an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation)

reorientation (a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs)

perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)

orthodoxy (a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards)

heresy; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy (any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position)

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

religious orientation (an attitude toward religion or religious practices)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Attribute:

horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)

perpendicular; vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orientation"):

attitude (position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion))

horizontal (something that is oriented horizontally)

vertical (something that is oriented vertically)

quarter (one of the four major division of the compass)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A predisposition in favor of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

orientation; predilection; preference

Context example:

showed a Marxist orientation

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

predisposition (an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

self-awareness (awareness of your own individuality)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A course introducing a new situation or environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

orientation; orientation course

Hypernyms ("orientation" is a kind of...):

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

 Context examples 

An indication of the orientation of the image plane.

(Image View, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition where the heart is in the correct anatomic position but some or all of the other thoracoabdominal viscera are in the opposite lateral orientation.

(Levocardia, NCI Thesaurus)

The orientation of a genomic element on the double stranded molecule.

(Genomic Orientation, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be located at various distances and in either orientation upstream from, downstream from or within a structural gene.

(Enhancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The team thought there might be a connection between the charge state and the ability to keep electron spins in the proper orientation to store qubits.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Magnetic sense isn't the only sense that seals use for orientation.

(Antarctic seals may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate while hunting, NSF)

This instrument contains approximately 11 multi-level questions involving various tasks which cover orientation, memory, attention and writing ability.

(Mini-Mental State Examination Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Creating slice views from a 3D image with their planes having desired orientations.

(Multi-planar Reformatting, NCI Thesaurus)

The orientation of a patient in relation to the head of the table.

(Patient Table Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

Orientation of the Patient with respect to the Head of the Table.

(Patient Table Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)