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Orientation vs Biorientation - What's the difference?

orientation | biorientation |

As nouns the difference between orientation and biorientation

is that orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented while biorientation is the orientation of chromosomes to opposite poles of the bipolar spindle before cell division.

orientation

English

(wikipedia orientation)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
  • (uncountable) A position relative to compass bearings
  • (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end
  • (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction
  • (countable) The ability to orient
  • (countable) An adjustment to a new environment
  • (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment
  • (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait
  • (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space

    • Antonyms

    * disorientation

    Derived terms

    * orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation

    Related terms

    * orient * orientalism * orientate * orienteer

    biorientation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The orientation of chromosomes to opposite poles of the bipolar spindle before cell division