# oriented

Pronunciation: US say "OR-ee-en-tid" /ˈɔɹ.iˌɛn.tɪd/; UK say "AW-ree-en-tid" /ˈɔː.ɹɪˌɛn.tɪd/

## Adjective

1. Having something as a main concern or guiding principle; focused on it, as the second part of a compound.
   - Simple: Paying most attention to one thing, used at the end of words like goal-oriented.
   - _The firm wants detail-oriented people who can check contracts line by line._
   - _Critics called the new tax plan business-oriented and unfair to renters._
2. Placed or pointed in a particular position or direction.
   - Simple: Turned or placed so that it faces a certain way.
   - _A correctly oriented antenna picks up a much clearer signal._
   - _Line up the tiles so that each one is oriented the same way._
4. Having been given an introduction to a place or subject; often followed by with or in.
   - Simple: Having learned the basics about a new place or subject.
   - _After a week of tours, the new nurses felt fully oriented with the hospital._
   - _She is well oriented in tax law, though she has never practiced it._
5. In various technical senses in geometry and topology, admitting or equipped with a notion of handedness, so that clockwise can be told apart from counterclockwise.
   - Simple: In math, having a fixed sense of which way is clockwise and which is counterclockwise.
   - _Integrating a differential form of top degree requires an oriented manifold._
   - _An oriented basis of the plane fixes which rotations count as counterclockwise._

## Verb

3. Past tense and past participle of orient. *(US)* — simple past and past participle of orient
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of orient. Use it about facing or pointing a certain way.
   - _The architects oriented the chapel so that its altar faced east._
   - _The studio has oriented its new shows toward younger viewers._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/oriented (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).