Position vs. Orientation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Position and Orientation
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Position
A place or location.
Orientation
The action of orienting someone or something relative to the points of a compass or other specified positions
Studies of locational awareness and orientation in young children
Position
The right or appropriate place
The bands are in position for the parade's start.
Orientation
A person's basic attitude, beliefs, or feelings in relation to a particular subject or issue
His book is well worth reading, regardless of your political orientation
Position
A strategic area occupied by members of a force
The troops took up positions along the river.
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Orientation
Familiarization with something
Many judges give instructions to assist jury orientation
Position
The way in which something is placed
The position of the clock's hands.
Orientation
The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
Position
The arrangement of body parts; posture
A standing position.
Orientation
Location or position relative to the points of the compass.
Position
In ballet, any of the five arrangements of the arms and feet in which the legs are turned out from the pelvis.
Orientation
The construction of a church so that its longitudinal axis has an east-west direction with the main altar usually at the eastern end.
Position
An advantageous place or location
Jockeys maneuvering for position.
Orientation
The direction followed in the course of a trend, movement, or development.
Position
A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances
In a position to bargain.
Orientation
A tendency of thought; a general inclination
A Marxist orientation.
Position
A point of view or attitude on a certain question
The mayor's position on taxes.
Orientation
Sexual orientation.
Position
Social standing or status; rank.
Orientation
An adjustment or adaptation to a new environment, situation, custom, or set of ideas.
Position
A post of employment; a job.
Orientation
Introductory instruction concerning a new situation
Orientation for incoming students.
Position
(Sports) The area for which a particular player is responsible.
Orientation
(Psychology) Awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self.
Position
The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.
Orientation
(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
Position
The act or process of positing.
Orientation
(countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
Position
A principle or proposition posited.
Orientation
(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
Position
A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.
Orientation
(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
Position
The amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
Orientation
(countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
Position
The ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.
Orientation
(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
Position
To put in place or position.
Orientation
(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
Position
To determine the position of; locate.
Orientation
(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
Position
A place or location.
Orientation
The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
Position
A post of employment; a job.
Orientation
(LGBT) sexual orientation
Position
A status or rank.
Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
Orientation
The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
Position
An opinion, stand, or stance.
My position on this issue is unchanged.
Orientation
The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
Position
A posture.
Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
Orientation
The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
Position
(figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
Orientation
The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.
Position
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
Stop running all over the field and play your position!
Orientation
An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.
Position
(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
Long position
Naked position
Orientation
A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter.
Position
(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
Orientation
The act of orienting
Position
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
Orientation
An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
Position
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Orientation
Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
Position
(poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
Orientation
A predisposition in favor of something;
A predilection for expensive cars
His sexual preferences
Showed a Marxist orientation
Position
To put into place.
Orientation
A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
Position
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it.
Orientation
A course introducing a new situation or environment
Position
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Position
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before.
Position
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
Position
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.
Position
To indicate the position of; to place.
Position
The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;
He put the lamp back in its place
Position
A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
Position
A way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Consider what follows from the positivist view
Position
Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;
He assumed an attitude of surrender
Position
The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
He had the status of a minor
The novel attained the status of a classic
Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life
Position
A job in an organization;
He occupied a post in the treasury
Position
The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
The position of the hands on the clock
He specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage
Position
The appropriate or customary location;
The cars were in position
Position
(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;
What position does he play?
Position
The act of putting something in a certain place or location
Position
A condition or position in which you find yourself;
The unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils
Found herself in a very fortunate situation
Position
An item on a list or in a sequence;
In the second place
Moved from third to fifth position
Position
A rationalized mental attitude
Position
An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
There are two sides to every question
Position
The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
Can you go in my stead?
Took his place
In lieu of
Position
The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
Position
Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
Position
Put into a certain place or abstract location;
Put your things here
Set the tray down
Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children
Place emphasis on a certain point
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