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Orientation   /ˌɔriɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Orientation

noun
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.  Synonyms: predilection, preference.  "His sexual preferences" , "Showed a Marxist orientation"
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.  Synonym: orientation course.



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"Orientation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of orientation. Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people. Taking away the pull of gravity might be a lot worse. And of course out in space your only reference points would ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... here a narrow definition of feudalism (see my Conquerors and Rulers, Leiden 1952).—The division of armies into "right" and "left" is interesting in the light of the theories concerning the importance of systems of orientation (Fr. Roeck and others). ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard
... MacMaine had been born and reared in that society. He could see many of its faults, but he didn't have the orientation to see all of them. As he'd grown older, he'd seen that, regardless of the position a man held according to seniority, a smart man could exercise more power than those above him if he ...
— The Highest Treason • Randall Garrett
... case of the more complex leaf, we see, not only in the phenomenon of growth, but in its extension in a flattened form, and in the orientation of greatest surface towards the source of energy, ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... it is to be hoped that his political intelligence, practical and cool, will save him from all exaggeration in this course. The notable increase of German armaments which supervenes at the moment of M. Poincare's entrance at the Elysee will increase the danger of a too nationalistic orientation of ...
— The European Anarchy • G. Lowes Dickinson


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