Orientation

Orientation may refer to:

  • Orientation (mental), a function of the mind
  • Orientation (movie), a 1996 short movie produced by the Church of Scientology
  • Orientation of churches is the custom of having the front of churches on their east side (Latin: oriens)
  • Orientation (housing), the position of a building with respect to the sun, a concept in building design
  • Student orientation, the first week of a university year in several countries
  • Coin orientation and Medallic orientation, a description of the orientation of opposite faces of a coin with respect to one another
  • Sexual orientation, the direction of an individual's sexuality relative to the sex of the persons the individual finds sexually attractive
  • Map orientation, the relationship between directions on a map and compass directions
  • Orientation (EP), a 2001 album by Sonata Arctica
  • Page orientation, whether the long or short side of a rectangular page is the bottom for normal viewing

Television
  • "Orientation" (Lost), a 2005 episode of American television series Lost
  • Orientación, an episode of the American television series Prison Break
  • "Orientation" (Heroes), a 2009 episode of American television series Heroes

Mathematics
  • Orientation (computer vision), an image processing concept related to one-dimensional characterization of a local image
  • Orientation (geometry), placement of an object in a rotational coordinate system with respect to a fixed point and a reference position
  • Orientation (vector space), a concept in linear algebra
  • Curve orientation, a property of a planar simple closed curve
  • Orientability, a property of surfaces in Euclidean space measuring whether or not it is possible to make a consistent choice of surface normal vector at every point
  • Orientation character, group homomorphism in surgery theory
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