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alignment
has definitions from the field of astronomy
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[ noun ] the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
Used in print (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)Thus , the alignment of the `` dots '' and `` tips '' , respectively , indicate individual variability of the 21 growth centers of each child with_respect_to the mean values for these boys and girls . |
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[ noun ] an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)Essentially this imposed two conditions : First , international_law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political_system in which a number of states were competitive , suspicious , and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; second , it had to be compatible with the value_system that they shared . On_the_one_hand , the major European_nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty , independence , formal equality - thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience . |
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[ noun ] (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
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[ noun ] the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
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