orientation
Example Sentences
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“He couldn’t make it. He had his orientation at the Music Academy.”
From Literature
For instance, inertial navigation systems—used to calculate a position, orientation and speed of an object—were initially developed for rockets.
“The girls got to pick apples and berries on the first day of orientation. Knowing this group is going to be held within a space like a garden … there’s healing in that.”
From Los Angeles Times
This orientation is illustrated in the last lines of a hymn by Isaac Watts, often sung during Lent: “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.”
By analyzing these signals, researchers can determine both the orientation and latitude of rocks when they formed, effectively turning them into a kind of ancient GPS.
From Science Daily
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