Alignment
[ə'laɪnm(ə)nt] or [ə'laɪnmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other.
(noun.) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
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Examples
- In all typewriters accurate location of the impression is essential to proper alignment of the letters, and proper alignment is the _sine qua non_ of typewriting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A spring within the magazine fed the cartridges up into alignment with the barrel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Oliver has made many friends for itself by its fine alignment and visible writing, and shares with the other standard machines a considerable patronage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It has ball-bearing type bar joints, giving accurate alignment and light key action, the platen rolls to show the work, and the carriage locks at the end of the line, protecting the writing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the Southern States the race issue has been thrust forward persistently to prevent an economic alignment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The screw plug is supported by a carrier hinged at one side to the gun, and arranged to swing the plug into axial alignment with the bore, or be thrown to one side to admit the charge. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The socialists knew from experience that sex views cut across economic ones--that a new interest breaks up the alignment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Alignment is insured by a center guide hole through which the type end of the lever passes in striking the paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The alignment of the letters was awful. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A recognition of what an incubus it is should make us hospitable to all those devices which aim at making politics responsive by disturbing the alignments of habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is good to disturb alignments: to break up a superficial unanimity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In ways like these we shall go on inventing methods by which the fictitious party alignments can be dissolved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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