orientation
The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
Other meanings
The relative physical position or direction of something.
The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
Related words
- biorientation
- class-orientation
- coorientation
- malorientation
- misorientation
- monoorientation
- multiorientation
- orientationist
- photoorientation
- preorientation
- orientational
- orientation course
Example sentences
Word history
From French "orientation".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “orientation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.