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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alignment \A*lign"ment\, n. [F. alignement.] 1. 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. 2. (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: alignment n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: {alliance}, {coalition}, {alinement}] [ant: {nonalignment}] 2: the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines 3: (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac [syn: {conjunction}] 4: the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
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