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1.nounThe determination of the relative position of something or someone.
2.nounThe relative physical position or direction of something.
3.nounThe construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
4.nounAn inclination, tendency or direction.
5.nounThe ability to orient."The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation."
6.nounAn adjustment to a new environment.
7.nounAn introduction to a (new) environment.
8.nounThe direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
9.nounThe choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
10.nounThe designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.