alignment

Meaning

Noun

• An arrangement of items in a line.
• The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
• An alliance of factions.
• The conjunction of two celestial objects.
• The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
• In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.
• A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

Origin

• French alignement
• Morphologically align + -ment