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Procreation vs Orientation - What's the difference?

procreation | orientation |

As nouns the difference between procreation and orientation

is that procreation is the process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind while orientation is the act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

procreation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind
  • The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring
  • Synonyms

    * reproduction

    See also

    * propagation

    Anagrams

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    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