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alignment [ə′līn·mənt]

(archeology)

An arrangement of a single row or of multiple rows of standing stones at a sites formerly occupied by humans.

(civil engineering)

In a survey for a highway, railroad, or similar installation, a ground plan that shows the horizontal direction of the route.

(electronics)

The process of adjusting components of a system for proper interrelationship, including the adjustment of tuned circuits for proper frequency response and the time synchronization of the components of a system.

(engineering)

Placing of surveying points along a straight line.

(mapping)

Representing of the correct direction, character, and relationships of a line or feature on a map.

(mining engineering)

The act of laying out a tunnel or regulating by line; adjusting to a line.

(nuclear physics)

A populationp(m) of the 2I+ 1 orientational substates of a nucleus;m= -Ito +I,such thatp(m) =p(-m).