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alignment

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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).


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Seven months ago now, Venus and Mars were in alignment with the sun; that is to say, Mars was in opposition from the point of view of an observer on Venus.
A moment later the officers began to bustle among the men, pushing them into a more com- pact mass and into a better alignment.
Then suddenly from either side airships began dropping out of alignment, smitten by missiles he could neither see nor trace.
 
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