Orientation vs. Seminar

The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.

A course of study for a small group of students in a college or graduate school, often entailing research under the guidance of a professor.

Location or position relative to the points of the compass.

The group of students in such a course.

The construction of a church so that its longitudinal axis has an east-west direction with the main altar usually at the eastern end.

A scheduled meeting of such a group.

The direction followed in the course of a trend, movement, or development.

A meeting for an exchange of ideas; a conference.

A tendency of thought; a general inclination

A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.

Sexual orientation.

A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.

An adjustment or adaptation to a new environment, situation, custom, or set of ideas.

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; - formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.

Introductory instruction concerning a new situation

Any meeting for an exchange of ideas

(Psychology) Awareness of the objective world in relation to one's self.

A course offered for a small group of advanced students

(countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.

(countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.

(uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.

(countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.

(countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.

(countable) An adjustment to a new environment.

(countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.

(education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.

The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.

(LGBT) sexual orientation

The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.

The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.

An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.

A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.

The act of orienting

An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs

Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

A predisposition in favor of something;

A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

A course introducing a new situation or environment