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Orientation vs Cubatic - What's the difference?

orientation | cubatic |

As a noun orientation

is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

As an adjective cubatic is

(physics|chemistry) describing a liquid crystal in which the molecules have no long-range translational order, but whose orientations have cubic symmetry (pointing along the x-, y- and z-axes with equal probability).

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

    cubatic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (physics, chemistry) Describing a liquid crystal in which the molecules have no long-range translational order, but whose orientations have cubic symmetry (pointing along the x-, y- and z-axes with equal probability)