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ALIGNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause
Classified under:
Similar:
allied (joined by treaty or agreement)
Antonym:
nonaligned (not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a straight line
Example:
pearly teeth evenly aligned
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Similar:
straight (having no deviations)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb align
Context examples:
These streaks appear to be aligned in the same direction and may have been produced by winds blowing across the frozen surface.
(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.
(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)
A right-handed spiral conformation; the a-helix has a pitch of 5.4 A and has 3.6 amino acid residues per turn; every main chain C=O and N-H group is hydrogen-bonded to a peptide bond 4 residues away; the peptide planes are roughly parallel with the helix axis and the dipoles within the helix are aligned, i.e. all C=O groups point in the same direction and all N-H groups point the other way; side chains point outward from helix axis and are generally oriented towards its amino-terminal end.
(Alpha Helix, NCI Thesaurus)
The Human Connectome Project (HCP) team set out to banish this blurriness by using multiple, precisely aligned, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) modalities to measure cortical architecture, activity, connectivity, and topography in a group of 210 healthy participants.
(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)
A list of non-aligned cancer center members with their departmental affiliations, areas of expertise and research interests and description of the strategies used to take advantage of their scientific expertise in furthering the research objectives of the center, is an essential part of the Cancer Center Support Grant Application.
(Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Member Section of Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)
The Sun will be aligned with Neptune, which is known to spread enchantment.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Jupiter's magnetic axis, like Earth's, is not aligned with its rotational axis.
(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)
Researchers found, for the first time, that the galactic wind flowing from the center of the Cigar Galaxy (M82) is aligned along a magnetic field and transports a very large mass of gas and dust - the equivalent mass of 50 million to 60 million Suns.
(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)
This is an annual event, but it has not been since December 2007 that the Sun and Jupiter aligned in Capricorn, so that makes this year’s date extra special for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
That’s when Jupiter will be aligned with the Sun, making it a day when you will see profits from your deal and create a win-win situation.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
