Usually means: Awareness of one's relative position.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word orientation:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. orientation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orientation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orientation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orientation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orientation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orientation, orientation: Wordnik
  7. orientation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. orientation: Wiktionary
  9. orientation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. orientation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. orientation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. orientation: Dictionary.com
  13. orientation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Orientation (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Orientation (EP), Orientation (Heroes), Orientation (Lost), Orientation (computer vision), Orientation (geometry), Orientation (graph theory), Orientation (mathematics), Orientation (mental), Orientation (rigid body), Orientation (sign language), Orientation (vector space), Orientation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Orientation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. orientation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. orientation: Rhymezone
  18. Orientation, orientation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Orientation: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. orientation: Free Dictionary
  21. orientation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. orientation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Orientation (mental), orientation: Legal dictionary
  3. orientation: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orientation: CCI Computer
  2. Orientation (mental), orientation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Orientation: Visionary
  6. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  7. Orientation (mental), orientation: Medical dictionary
  8. Orientation: Brain Injury

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)
  4. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Orientation: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  6. Orientation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  7. orientation, orientation, orientation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orientation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Orientation: Gems and Precious Stones
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See orientational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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