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