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English noun: alignment | |||
| 1. | alignment (group) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | ||
| Synonyms | alinement, alliance, coalition | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organisation, organization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Allies, Allies, allies, Axis, axis, bloc, Central Powers, combination, entente, entente cordiale, global organization, international organisation, international organization, Northern Alliance, popular front, United Front, world organisation, world organization | ||
| Member holonym | ally | ||
| Antonyms | nonalignment, nonalinement | ||
| 2. | alignment (attribute) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | arrangement, placement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | true | ||
| 3. | alignment (event) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | ||
| Synonyms | conjunction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | encounter, meeting | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | inferior conjunction, superior conjunction | ||
| Domain category | astronomy, uranology | ||
| 4. | alignment (act) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adjustment, readjustment, registration | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | camber, toe-in | ||
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