Orientation in a sentence as a noun

One: In a world where all of tech turns over on a timescale of months, orientation is important.

In the one orientation its optimized for, its slightly annoying.

No, it's a chaotic system that is quasistable for an average of 11 years at a time before it flips to the opposite orientation with respect to the spin axis.

It's far from obvious which platform is which, especially since after working your way through the maze I've described so far, you will have zero orientation as to which way is north.

There are whole departments of psychology[7] that largely have a scientific orientation and are trying to improve the discipline's methodology.

Sometimes on HN I find it shocking just how completely clueless some of our prolific commentators are re: prejudice, whether by race, gender, creed, orientation, or anything else.

"In 16 years that Eich was in leadership position in Mozilla, he welcomed and worked with everyone with different personal beliefs, religious values, and sexual orientation.

All these data structures are explained first as chunks of data with external functions for the operations; then a second time as objects with methods for operations, once object orientation is introduced in week 5 or 6.

With auto-orientation matching, and documenting/validating this entire system.

There are fundamental differences between static typing and dynamic typing, object orientation and functional, manual memory management and garbage collection.

In practice I've done things both with a topic-branch orientation and a rebase-to-master orientation, and I understand both intimately, and a rebased linear history does not destroy nearly as much information as this article would have you believe.

Orientation definitions

noun

the act of orienting

noun

an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs

noun

position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

noun

a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

See also: predilection preference

noun

a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

noun

a course introducing a new situation or environment