English Dictionary

orientation

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 略語 別表記 省略 迂言形

(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone. / (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.

日本語の意味

向き – 物体や人の相対的な向きや方向を示す / 方向 – ある物体や人の位置や向きを示す / 位置関係 – 複数の物や人の相対的な位置の関係

Before the experiment began, the technicians carried out an orientation of the instruments to establish their relative positions.

実験が始まる前に、技術者たちは機器の位置関係の決定を行い、それらの配置を確定した。

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.

意味（5）

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

The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.

意味（6）

(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

(LGBT) Ellipsis of sexual orientation.

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(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.

orientations （ plural ）