Orientation vs Symposium - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between orientation and symposium

is that orientation is (uncountable) the act of orienting or the state of being oriented while symposium is symposium.

(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 conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.

(in ancient Greece ) A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.