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alignment

align·ment

UK/əˈlaɪn.mənt/ US/əˈlaɪn.mənt/ uncommon

noun

1.

an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

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2.

the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines

3.

(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

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4.

the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

Origin

From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.

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  • alignment chart
  • alignment diagram
  • alignment problem
  • alignment tax
  • entity alignment
  • frame-alignment recovery time
  • ontology alignment
  • stone alignment

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