Meaning of alignment in English

alignment

noun

/əˈlaɪn.mənt/ us

/əˈlaɪn.mənt/

alignment noun (POSITION)

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an arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other:

in alignment This mattress supports the body in a way that keeps the neck and spine in alignment.

in alignment with Try to keep your head in alignment with your spine.

out of alignment The problem is happening because the wheels are out of alignment.

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Balance and imbalance

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alignment noun (AGREEMENT)

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an agreement between a group of countries, political parties, or people who want to work together because of shared interests or aims:

New alignments are being formed within the business community.

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If two things or people are in alignment, they are the same as or similar to each other, or agree with each other. If they are out of alignment, they are different, or disagree:

in alignment At the moment, it seems to me that we're in alignment.

in alignment with The feedback was in alignment with my own experience.

out of alignment On reflection, I think my priorities were out of alignment.

out of alignment with Many families are living in communities where home prices are way out of alignment with incomes.

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Accepting & agreeing

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(Definition of alignment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of alignment

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Similar alignments of intein-associated endonuclease domains indicate a more diverged structure of the b-sheet motifs.

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Foot-head alignment's influence over foot type is most easily demonstrated using even-parity forms.

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Each phase of the attachment procedure was simulated by a pulling model except the pivoting action of the cams for yaw and pitch alignments.

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Like the names of the individual alignments, the labels "inver ted" and "provisional" do provide some measure of explanation as far as they go.

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In identity work, erasure and highlighting often function in tandem to establish interactionally or situationally sufficient alignments and disalignments.

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If chunks are aligned incorrectly, then some correct word alignments are ruled out from the start, since words cannot be aligned across chunk pairs.

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Setting = 0 favors chunk alignments of equal segment lengths, while = 1 prefers shorter length segments.

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In both cases, sure alignments are counted as a subset of probable alignments.

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Additionally, the optical alignments become much easier than the case of the conventional mirrors are used.

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A useful first step in assessing variability of genes is to inspect alignments of different genes.

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An order of 2 x 3 squares, the house proper contained within 2x2 squares while there are numerous alignments that establish a secondary order.

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Single-species alignments, which contained fewer gaps and were therefore shorter, were used to analyse sequence variation, allele frequency spectrum and recombination within species.

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We suspect that this reflects domestic political alignments similar to those displayed for democratic values.

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Constraints based on symmetry arguments may prove to be useful in evaluating sequence alignments and also in improving consensus sequences derived from such alignments.

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Evaluation of alignments is usually carried out with respect to some previously created gold standard alignments.

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Collocations with alignment

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alignment procedure

This forms the basis for an unsupervised sentence alignment procedure that allows us to iteratively refine the translation tables.

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closer alignment

Member-based trustee boards have their own money invested in the fund, resulting in a closer alignment between the interests of trustees and other fund members.

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perfect alignment

Steps due to lack of perfect alignment between adjacent sectors of the skin were kept less than +0*0005in., though over the circumference, waves of + 0.004 in. were present.

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Meaning of alignment in English

alignment noun (POSITION)

alignment noun (AGREEMENT)

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