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▸ noun:  (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
▸ noun:  (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
▸ noun:  (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
▸ noun:  (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
▸ noun:  (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
▸ noun:  (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
▸ noun:  (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
▸ noun:  (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
▸ noun:  (mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
▸ noun:  (analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
▸ noun:  (LGBTQ) Ellipsis of sexual orientation. [The tendencies of a person's sexual attraction, considered as a whole.]

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