orientation (or-i-en-ta's hun). i

The position or bearing of any object in relation to the east, and hence in relation to the points of the compa generally. 2. The faculty or proce of judging of the relative position of objects in space. 3. The arrangement of embryos, organs, etc., so that microscopic sections may be made in a known and definite plane, objective o. The faculty or proce by which external objects are referred to their correct position with reference to one another, so that the relations of the separate parts of a body are rightly apprehended, although the body as a whole may be wrongly located by the observer. subjective o. The faculty or proce by which external objects are referred to their correct position as regards the observer, so that a body appears to him in its proper place. [Lat., oriens, the east.]