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Alignment

noun

An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty. Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition. Antonym: nonalignment.

The spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines.

(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac. Synonym: conjunction.

The act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other.

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"Alignment" Quotes from Famous Books

... never touched the banners that floated above their heads. Were they new recruits from some military camp, now first to test their training in actual war? In the sunlight the long line of bayonets gleamed like burnished silver. As if fresh from the parade-ground they advanced with perfect alignment, their steps keeping martial time to the steady beat of the drum. It was a magnificent spectacle as the line advanced, a show of martial beauty which it seemed a shame to destroy by the rude hand ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... stifled her. She fetched her cape and hat. They were lying upon his table, and as she took them she could see the sheets of an unfinished letter. The writing was firm and fine, with the regular alignment and spacing of one who is deft about handwork. Her eye glanced over the page; the letter was in answer to a doctor in Baltimore, who had asked him to cooperate in preparing a surgical monograph. "I should like extremely to be with ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... carried upon the horse's saddle, and is fitted with a pair of legs on each side. On one side of the saddle is mounted a small highspeed explosion motor, while on the opposite side, in axial alignment with the motor, is a small dynamo. When it is desired to erect the installation the saddle carrying this set is removed from the horse's back and placed upon the ground, the legs acting as the support. A length ...

— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot

... of this law of the flock came down to me from the blue ether when I first saw, in my boyhood, a V-shaped flock of Canada geese cleaving the sky with straight and steady flight, and perfect alignment. Even in my boyish mind I realized that the well-ordered progress of the wild geese was in obedience to Intelligence and Flock Law. Later on, I saw on the Jersey sands the mechanical sweeps and curves and doubles of flying flocks ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... impossible to locate the sound, which ceased almost immediately. Our first thought was that the telephone men were drilling a hole through the wall into my study. Then came the sharp rat-a-ta-tat once more. Even as we looked about us in bewilderment, the portly facade of Ludwig the Red moved out of alignment with a heart-rending squeak and a long thin streak of black appeared at the inner edge of the frame, growing wider,— and blacker if ...

— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

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