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Definition of Orienting
1. Adjective. Positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually. "An orienting program for new employees"
Also: Orientated, Oriented
Similar to: Aligning, Positioning, Dimensioning, Familiarising, Familiarizing, Homing
Antonyms: Disorienting
Definition of Orienting
1. Verb. (present participle of orient) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orienting
1. orient [v] - See also: orient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orienting
Literary usage of Orienting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"orienting the Transit. In running lines by azimuths, the first step after setting
up the transit at ... This is called orienting the transit. Illustration. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The process of locating the picture trace is called orienting the picture, ...
orienting the Picture Trace. — In order that the picture trace may be ..."
3. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"orienting Devices.—For petrographic work orienting devices, by which sections
may be cut at any desired angle, are very seldom used. ..."
4. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"orienting Devices.—For petrographic work orienting devices, by which sections
may be cut at any desired angle, are very seldom used. ..."
5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"For petrographic work orienting devices, by which sections may be cut at any
desired angle, are very seldom used. 1 HJ Grayson: Op. cit., 71-74. ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Testing the Active Movements i (a) Preliminary orienting Examination Here again
it is well to make, first, a quick, general and somewhat superficial ..."
7. Plane Surveying: A Text and Reference Book for the Use of Students in by Paul Cook Nugent (1902)
"From this the method of orienting will easily be understood. The table is first
set up with the point on the plot and the ..."
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