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adjective

oriented, orientated adj.

Adjusted or aligned to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination; as, to get oriented on one's first day at a new job.

Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; as, college-oriented students. Opposite of unoriented.

Synonyms: directed, minded.

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Etymology of 'Oriented'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Oriented" Quotes from Famous Books

... nickel-iron, nearly two thirds of a mile in diameter and, like the other inhabited planetoids of the Belt, honeycombed with corridors and rooms cut out of the living metal itself. But the corridors and rooms were oriented differently from those of the other planetoids; Threadneedle Street made one complete rotation about its axis in something less than a minute and a half, and the resulting centrifugal force reversed the normal "up" and "down", so that the center ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... believed so firmly in the influence of the stars over human destiny, that they were sure to establish some connection between those heavenly bodies and the arrangement of their edifices. All the buildings of Chaldaea and Assyria are orientated; the principle is everywhere observed, but it is not always ...

— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot

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