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Noun orientation has 6 senses

orientation - the act of orienting
--₁ is a kind of placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
orientation - an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
--₂ is a kind of attitude, mental attitude
--₂ has particulars:
wavelength; experimentalism; reorientation; position, view, perspective; orthodoxy; unorthodoxy, heterodoxy, heresy; political orientation, ideology, political theory; religious orientation
orientation - position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
--₃ is a kind of direction
--₃ has particulars: attitude; horizontal; vertical; quarter
predilection, preference, orientation - a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"
--₄ is a kind of predisposition
orientation - a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
--₅ is a kind of self-awareness
orientation course, orientation - a course introducing a new situation or environment
--₆ is a kind of course, course of study, course of instruction, class