alignment
pronunciation
How to pronounce alignment in British English:
UK [əˈlaɪnmənt]
How to pronounce alignment in American English:
US [əˈlaɪnmənt]
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- Noun:
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
Word Origin
- alignment (n.)
- 1790, "arrangement in a line," from French alignement, from aligner (see align). Political sense is from 1933.
Example
- 1. The first of these is galactic alignment and the winter solstice .
- 2. First , I used a strong left alignment for the text .
- 3. That leaves the alignment of national parties as a second-best option .
- 4. Lunar eclipses occur when the sun earth and moon sit in alignment and the earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon .
- 5. The new approach uses beams of electrically charged atoms to perform the crystal alignment .