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Orientation is a function of the mind involving awareness of three dimensions: time, place and person. Problems with orientation lead to disorientation, and can be due to various conditions.

Related Definition

  1. orientation:

    n (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

    n (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.

    n (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.

    n (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.

    n (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.

    n (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.

    n (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.

    n (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.

    n (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

    n (mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

    n (analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

    n (LGBT) Ellipsis of sexual orientation. [One's tendencies of sexual attraction, considered as a whole.]


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