Orientation vs Briefing - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between orientation and briefing

is that orientation is the act of orienting or the state of being oriented while briefing is a short and concise summary of a situation.

present participle of lang=en.

(wikipedia orientation)

(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

* disorientation

* orientational * orientation course * reorientation * sexual orientation

(en noun)

A short and concise summary of a situation.

The president received a briefing on the situation before going to the press conference.

A presentation of information or instruction; the meeting at which it is presented.

Today's briefing of the press.

(head)