ORIENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oriented mean? 

• ORIENTED (adjective)
  The adjective ORIENTED has 1 sense:

1. adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination

  Familiarity information: ORIENTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination

Synonyms:

orientated; oriented

Context example:

the book is value-oriented throughout

Similar:

adjusted; familiarised; familiarized (having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment)

bound; destined (headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students')

directed ((often used in combination) having a specified direction)

headed (having a heading or course in a certain direction)

homeward; homeward-bound (oriented toward home)

minded ((used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified)

Also:

orientating; orienting (positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually)

Antonym:

unoriented (not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained)

 Context examples 

The scientists placed worms in vertically oriented tubes filled with a gel-like substance.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

With four mighty planets in your third house, you will likely work on a communication-oriented project.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Includes the laboratory-based development of new forms of technology, studies of health-related professions, institutions, and systems, excludes disease-oriented studies of material, obtained from patients who were unknown to investigators.

(Patient Oriented Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Depending on how these galactic nuclei are oriented and what sort of material surrounds them, they appear very different when examined with telescopes.

(Black Holes Hide in Our Cosmic Backyard, NASA)

They then used computer algorithms and image processing software to deduce the locations of the shock waves based on distortions of the background pattern—an approach called the background-oriented schlieren technique.

(Seeing Shock Waves, EARTH OBSERVATORY)

Mechanism to fund single project applications in patient oriented or basic research near the payline and for which reviewer criticisms can be addressed quickly.

(Accelerated Executive Review, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists found that the larvae oriented to the magnetic northwest in the chamber, and, although deprived of all other environmental cues, oriented toward the same magnetic direction in the MagLab.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

The polymerization of actin to drive cell movement also involves branching of actin filaments into a network oriented with the growing ends of the fibers near the cell membrane.

(Actin Branching Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Unlike Earth, the spin axes of Mercury and the Moon are oriented such that, in their polar regions, the Sun never rises high above the horizon.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

It applies to clinicians who are pursuing basic science careers; clinicians who are pursuing careers in patient-oriented research; and to individuals pursuing careers in the prevention, control and population sciences.

(Career Transition Award, NCI Thesaurus)