Alignment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alignment \A*lign"ment\, n. [F. alignement.]
     1. The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or
        lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a
        straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an
        imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a
        squadron.


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     2. (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in
        distinction from the grades or profile.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alignment
       n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
            or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {coalition}, {alinement}]
            [ant: {nonalignment}]
       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 [syn: {conjunction}]
       4: the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in
          relation to each other

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "alignment":
     accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, affiliation, alliance,
     amalgamation, analogy, association, bearings, cahoots, coadunation,
     coalescence, coalition, coextension, colleagueship, collegialism,
     collegiality, collineation, combination, comradeship, concurrence,
     confederacy, confederation, confraternity, consolidation,
     copartnership, copartnery, disorientation, equidistance,
     federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
     freemasonry, fusion, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration,
     league, merger, nondivergence, orientation, parallelism,
     partnership, sodality, sorority, tie-in, tie-up, unification,
     union