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  • adjective Of or pertaining to orientation

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Examples

  • Surrender thus involves the danger of what may be called orientational injuries, defense injuries, and social injuries.

    Surrender (and Catch) 2008

  • It is this synthetic effort that gives our dreams their impressive thematic coherence: dream plots remain remarkably intact despite their orientational disorganization.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Kylopod 2007

  • (Oklahoma City) A few days ago I was in an email exchange with some gay guys and the thread was about the spelling of our orientational moniker/acronym commonly used as a short hand to describe us in the media.

    How to Spell Equality? I before E except after C. L before G except Before B? 2007

  • It is this synthetic effort that gives our dreams their impressive thematic coherence: dream plots remain remarkably intact despite their orientational disorganization.

    Interpreting dreams Kylopod 2007

  • Note: The principles of the OAU Charter are, in terms of the Sirte Declaration, maintained as part of the orientational basis of the

    ANC Today 1999

  • Even though some components are coupled to each other (there is a spontaneous breaking of the symmetry in spin-orbit space) the wave function is still quite complicated and gives rise to a rich set of orientational effects.

    Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 1996

  • This light scattering depends in a complicated manner on fluctuations in the orientational order.

    Press Release: The 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics 1991

  • Thus each framework has a definite orientational effect in the lives of men who so construe their morals.

    RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

  • And, again, the fact that their clothing and cleanliness patterns are incompatible with too great a familiarity with the physical environment of the street would seem to be as much effect as cause of their level of orientational discipline.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • Instead of considering the amount or the parts of the body exposed, it might be more profitable to examine the orientational implications of exposure.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

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