Picture a compass needle settling: the thing is not moving anywhere, it is simply facing a direction. That is the plainest version — which way something points. Everything else is the same idea moved inside a person or a group: what they lean towards, what they believe, who they are drawn to. And a session that gets newcomers pointing the right way is called by the same name.

可以想成:指南針的針停下來——東西沒有移動,只是「朝著某個方向」。這是這個字最單純的樣子:面向哪裡。其餘幾個意思都是把同一件事搬進人或團體裡:他們偏重什麼、相信什麼、被誰吸引。而幫新人「把方向對好」的那場說明會,用的也是這個字。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

orientationnoun/ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/

  • 1

    The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

  • 2

    The relative physical position or direction of something.

  • 3

    The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.

  • 4

    An inclination, tendency or direction.

  • 5

    The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.

    • The homing instinct in pigeons is an example of orientation.
  • 6

    An adjustment to a new environment.

  • 7

    An introduction to a (new) environment.

  • 8

    educationAn introduction to a (new) environment.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    mediapublishingtypographyThe direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

  • 10

    mathematical-analysismathematicssciencesThe choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

  • 11

    geometrymathematicssciencesThe designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • sexual orientation

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。