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oriented

  • adjective
  • /ˈɔː.ɹɪˌɛn.tɪd/

Having a specific ( or ).

Example

“During assembly, keep the tab oriented toward the slot that it will later enter.”

Other meanings

  1. Having had an (an to a topic or place).

    “They are now oriented with the main campus.”

  2. In any of various technical senses, admitting or being equipped with a notion of handedness (i.e. of distinguishing clockwise and anticlockwise). See Orientability

Related words

  • alert and oriented
  • conscious and oriented
  • bioriented
  • contraoriented
  • disoriented
  • maloriented
  • misoriented
  • monooriented
  • nonoriented
  • orientedness
  • preoriented
  • unoriented

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “oriented” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.