alignment

3 definitions found

alignment - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Alignment \A*lign"ment\, n. [F. alignement.]
     1. The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or
        lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a
        straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an
        imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a
        squadron.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in
        distinction from the grades or profile.
        [1913 Webster]

alignment - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  alignment
      n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
           or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment,
           alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement]
      2: the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position
         of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
      3: (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more
         celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac [syn:
         conjunction, alignment]
      4: the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in
         relation to each other

alignment - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "alignment":
     accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, affiliation, alliance,
     amalgamation, analogy, association, bearings, cahoots, coadunation,
     coalescence, coalition, coextension, colleagueship, collegialism,
     collegiality, collineation, combination, comradeship, concurrence,
     confederacy, confederation, confraternity, consolidation,
     copartnership, copartnery, disorientation, equidistance,
     federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization,
     freemasonry, fusion, hookup, inclusion, incorporation, integration,
     league, merger, nondivergence, orientation, parallelism,
     partnership, sodality, sorority, tie-in, tie-up, unification,
     union