Alignment vs Integration - What's the difference?
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An arrangement of items in a line.
The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
An alliance of factions.
(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
(gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
(bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
The act or process of making whole or entire.
(society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
(calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
(biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.
