Orientation vs Alignment - What's the difference?
orientation | alignment |
(uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
(uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
(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
(countable) An adjustment to a new environment
(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
(typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
(mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space
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.