POSITIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positioning mean? 

• POSITIONING (noun)
  The noun POSITIONING has 1 sense:

1. the act of putting something in a certain place

  Familiarity information: POSITIONING used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. causing to fall into line or into position

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of putting something in a certain place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning

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

activity (any specific behavior)

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

stratification (the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination)

apposition; collocation; juxtaposition (the act of positioning close together (or side by side))

interposition; intervention (the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others)

orientation (the act of orienting)

planting (the act of fixing firmly in place)

implantation (the act of planting or setting in the ground)

repositioning (the act of placing in a new position)

set (the act of putting something in position)

superposition (the placement of one thing on top of another)

fingering (the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument)

superposition ((geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide)

Derivation:

position (cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation)

• POSITIONING (adjective)

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 

Outside the living body; referring to the use or positioning of an organ, tissue, or cell in an environment outside the living organism while the tissue or cells remain viable.

(Ex vivo, NCI Thesaurus)

When the researchers compared the positioning and shape of the vertebrae, they found something surprising.

(What makes a mammal a mammal? Our spine, say scientists, National Science Foundation)

The typical positioning of the hydrophobic residues in the coiled-coil domain can be often recognized from primary structure of the protein.

(Coiled-Coil Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiographic film that is positioned in the mouth by biting on a central tab or positioning wing.

(Bitewing Radiograph, NCI Thesaurus)

A structure that permits a subject to recline; it can be used for sleeping or for positioning a subject for a procedure.

(Bed, NCI Thesaurus)

An artifact resulting from the incorrect positioning of the patient.

(Incorrect Patient Position, NCI Thesaurus)

A bed that includes a hydraulic system designed for movement or positioning of an object or subject.

(Hydraulic Bed System Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Further, BAF60a possesses at least two interaction surfaces, one for GR and BRG1 and a second for BAF155 and BAF170.The remodeling process converts the closed conformation of the MMTV promoter to an open one without altering the nucleosomal positioning.

(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)