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alignment : paglaray (n.)

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alignment
n.1. alignment, alinement, alliance, coalitionan organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty.
~ combinationan alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes).
~ organization, organisationa group of people who work together.
~ alliesan alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy.
~ bloc, axisa group of countries in special alliance.
~ alliesin World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers.
~ central powersin World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies.
~ alliesthe alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945.
~ axisin World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations.; "the Axis opposed the Allies in World War II"
~ entente, entente cordialean informal alliance between countries.
~ popular fronta leftist coalition organized against a common opponent.
~ global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organizationan international alliance involving many different countries.
~ allya friendly nation.
~ northern alliance, united fronta multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban.
n.2. alignmentthe spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines.
~ placement, arrangementthe spatial property of the way in which something is placed.; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs"
~ trueproper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment.; "out of true"
n.3. alignment, conjunction(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac.
~ astronomy, uranologythe branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole.
~ encounter, meetinga casual or unexpected convergence.; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"
~ inferior conjunction(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun.
~ superior conjunction(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the opposite side of the sun.
n.4. alignmentthe act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other.
~ readjustment, adjustment, registrationthe act of adjusting something to match a standard.
~ camberthe alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top.
~ toe-inthe alignment of the front wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the front than at the back.