orientation

noun12

1. •
   The relative physical position or direction of something.
2. •
   Ellipsis of sexual orientation.

   • And now, I want to help other asexual people to embrace their orientation without an instilled core of self-doubt. — 2014
3. •
   An introduction to a (new) environment.
4. •
   Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
5. •
   The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
6. •
   An inclination, tendency or direction.
7. •
   The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
8. •
   The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.

   • The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
9. •
   An adjustment to a new environment.
10. •
    The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
11. •
    The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
12. •
    The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.