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Oriental vs Orientation - What's the difference?

oriental | orientation |

As nouns the difference between oriental and orientation

is that oriental is a precious stone, especially an orient pearl while orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

As an adjective oriental

is of a pearl or other precious stone: having a superior lustre.

oriental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • Antonyms

    * occidental

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Related terms

    * Orient

    References

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    Anagrams

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    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