Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing orientation; in chem., designating the influence of an atom or group of atoms in a compound upon the position of other atoms or groups that are subsequently introduced by substitution.
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- verb Present participle of
orient .
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- adjective positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually
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Examples
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As long-term orienting missions, they create many problems.
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Using the war on terror as America's long-term orienting mission, though, generates many problems.
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In "Mont Blanc," Shelley remained interested in orienting his readers toward systemic perceptions, but he seems no longer to have believed that representations of motion and activity were the keys to enabling such understandings.
The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility 1997
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The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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We asked the same thing as well and there's something known as the orienting reflex and this is the sort of possibility of why it leads to ADD.
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The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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Surprise stimuli trigger what is known as the orienting response in which the heart rate increases, the nervous system is more aroused and we pay intense attention to a new item in our environment.
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Surprise stimuli trigger what is known as the orienting response in which the heart rate increases, the nervous system is more aroused and we pay intense attention to a new item in our environment.
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