different between orientation vs orientating
orientation
English
Etymology
From French orientation. Surface etymology is orient +? -ation
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???i?n?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
orientation (countable and uncountable, plural orientations)
- (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
- (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
- (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
- (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
- The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
- (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
- (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
- (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
- (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- (LGBT) Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
- (mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
- (analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
Antonyms
- disorientation
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- attraction
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.?j??.ta.sj??/
Noun
orientation f (plural orientations)
- orientation
Derived terms
- course d'orientation
- orientation sexuelle
Related terms
- orientable
- orientement m
- orienter
- orienteur m
Further reading
- “orientation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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orientating
English
Verb
orientating
- present participle of orientate
Adjective
orientating (not comparable)
- That changes an orientation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Anagrams
- integration
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