Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Arrangement or position in a straight line or in parallel lines.
- noun The process of adjusting parts so that they are in proper relative position.
- noun The condition of having parts so adjusted.
- noun A ground plan.
- noun The act of aligning or the condition of being aligned.
- noun An arrangement or alliance of groups.
- noun An arrangement or positioning of players.
- noun The grouping or positioning of teams, as in a conference or league.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
arrangement of items in aline . - noun The
process ofadjusting amechanism such that itsparts arealigned ; thecondition of having its parts so adjusted. - noun An
alliance offactions . - noun astronomy The
conjunction of twocelestial objects. - noun transport The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- noun gaming In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- noun (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- noun the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
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It's very easy to make your own predefined colors or to change a title alignment or even to change a button icon size.
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It's very easy to make your own predefined color or to change a title alignment or even to change a button icon size.
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It's very easy to make your own predefined color or to change a title alignment or even to change a button icon size.
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The challenge is, while we are telling you who you should be and expecting you to live in alignment with those standards and expectations, we forget two important things.
Iyanla Vanzant: How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They're Going Through: Lie or Leave Iyanla Vanzant 2010
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I think Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, with a good script, and all the moons in alignment?
‘Karate Kid’ Ralph Macchio Unsure About Jackie Chan as Mr. Miyagi » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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The current “liberal” alignment is none of these things.
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There are still laws against copying intellectual work, it ` s just that they ` re restored in alignment with natural law, ie you can copy what you privately possess, but not that which someone else privately possesses.
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And I once argued that it was that process, the process of recomposition, that was why software engineering was so human-centered, it was the need to be able to put things together that drove a significant number of the collaborations required to keep all the individually separated parts in alignment so that they would fit back together again.
Revisiting Visions « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2009
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I find that by holding my attention steady, and staying in alignment with my intentions and vision, the “flow” comes more naturally and obstacles are more easily transformed.
Women Grow Business » Vision, Intention & Attention: 3 Critical Steps to Being Your Best 2010
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The terms utility and preference are elastic enough to perhaps cover, say, the noble action of living in alignment with your ideals, if you adopt an overly broad definition.
Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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AI firms like to talk up the idea of "alignment" – explaining how their models have been trained and tuned so that they will not cause harm.
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix it Mark Pesce 2024
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