Alignment

Alignment stands for:

Alignment (mining) , approaching a deposit for the extraction of mineral resources
Alignment (linguistics) , English alignment , object of investigation of the relational typology

Alignment (measurement) , alignment, staking out a straight line

Orientation (architecture) , orientation of a building

North , alignment of a map or plan

ideological orientation , the orientation towards a certain ideology

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Wiktionary: Alignment - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations