orientation

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ˌoɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/|/ˌoː.ɹi.ənˈtæɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The determination of the relative position of something or someone. countable
  2. The relative physical position or direction of something. countable
  3. The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end. uncountable
  4. An inclination, tendency or direction. countable
  5. The ability to orient, or the process of so doing. countable
    — The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
  6. An adjustment to a new environment. countable
  7. An introduction to a (new) environment. countable
  8. An introduction to a (new) environment.; Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school. countable,uncountable
  9. The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait. countable
  10. Ellipsis of sexual orientation. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — And now, I want to help other asexual people to embrace their orientation without an instilled core of self-doubt.
  11. The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space. countable
  12. The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface. analytic,countable

词形变化

orientations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biorientation class-orientation coorientation family of orientation macro-level orientation malorientation micro-level orientation misorientation monoorientation multiorientation orientational orientation cage orientation camp orientation course orientationist orientation week photoorientation preorientation reorientation romantic orientation sexual orientation
相关词
nonorientable orient orientable orientalism orientate orienteer attraction

词源

From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.
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