Alignment

Alignment may refer to:

• Alignment (archaeology), secondary evidence used to associate features such as postholes
• Alignment (political party), in Israel from 1965 to 1992
• Alignment (role-playing games), the moral and ethical perspective of the characters, monsters, and societies
  • Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Body alignment, in sports and dance, the proper placement of bones so that muscles do less work
• Business/IT alignment, how well an organization is able to use Information Technology to achieve objectives
• Constructive alignment, a method of devising teaching activities that directly address learning outcomes
• Data structure alignment, arranging data in computer memory to fit machine design
• Morphosyntactic alignment, the linguistic system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs
• Ontology alignment, the process of determining correspondences between concepts
• Parallel text alignment, the identification of corresponding sentences in original and translated texts
• Planetary alignment, in astronomy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies
• Sequence alignment, in bioinformatics, arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify similarities
• Shaft alignment, in mechanical engineering, aligning two or more shafts with each other
• Stone alignment, a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones
• Structural alignment, establishing similarities in the 3D structure of protein molecules
• Typographic alignment, placement of printed matter relative to a page, column, margin, etc.
• Wheel alignment, automobile wheel and suspension angles which affect performance and tire wear
• Road or railway alignment, the route of a road or railway, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves; see: Geometric design of roads