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Placement vs Orientation - What's the difference?

placement | orientation |

As nouns the difference between placement and orientation

is that placement is the act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed while orientation is the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

placement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
  • A location or position.
  • It seems to me that the placement of that post could be better.
  • The act of matching a person with a job
  • The agency does not guarantee placement , but they work on commission.

    Derived terms

    * job placement * product placement

    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