Intrinsic vs Orientation - What's the difference?
intrinsic | orientation |
Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.
* I. Taylor
Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.
A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
(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
As nouns the difference between intrinsic and orientation
is that intrinsic is a built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library while orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.As an adjective intrinsic
is innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.intrinsic
English
(Intrinsic and extrinsic properties)Alternative forms
* intrinsick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- the intrinsic value of gold or silver
- the intrinsic merit of an action
- He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.
Antonyms
* extrinsicDerived terms
* * * * *Noun
(en noun)- You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.
