orientation

noun

1. 1

   The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

2. 2

   The relative physical position or direction of something.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   An inclination, tendency or direction.

5. 5

   The ability to orient.

   “The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.”

6. 6

   An adjustment to a new environment.

7. 7

   An introduction to a (new) environment.

8. 8

   The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

9. 9

   The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

10. 10

    The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.