Alignment - Definition

n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact
or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment,
alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement]
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, alignment]
4: the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in
relation to each other