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{{wiktionary|align}}Alignment may refer to:{{TOC right}}

Archaeology

• Alignment (archaeology), a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks
• Stone alignment, a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones

Biology

• Structural alignment, establishing similarities in the 3D structure of protein molecules
• Sequence alignment, in bioinformatics, arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify similarities
  • Alignment program, software used in sequence alignment

Engineering

• Road alignment, the route of a road, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves, as defined by planners and surveyors
• Railway alignment, three-dimensional geometry of track layouts
• Transfer alignment, a process for initializing and calibrating the inertial navigation system on a missile or torpedo
• Shaft alignment, in mechanical engineering, aligning two or more shafts with each other
• Wheel alignment, automobile wheel and suspension angles which affect performance and tire wear

Technology

• Alignment level, an audio recording/engineering term for a selected point in the audio that represents a reasonable sound level
• Business-IT alignment, how well an organization is able to use Information Technology to achieve objectives
• Data structure alignment, arranging data in computer memory to fit machine design, also known more simply as an alignment structure
• Music alignment, link various music representation (sheet music, audio, video, MIDI, etc.) related to a given musical work
• Partition alignment, letting address ranges of hard disk drive partitions start at certain physical boundaries or at multiples of units such as 1 MB

Linguistics and typography

• Morphosyntactic alignment, the linguistic system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs
• Parallel text alignment, the identification of corresponding sentences in original and translated texts
• Typographic alignment, placement of printed matter relative to a page, column, margin, etc.

Other uses

• 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)
• The Alignment, a 2012 album by Samestate
• Alignment of random points in statistics representing data points that lie on a relatively straight path
• Body alignment, in sports and dance, the proper placement of bones so that muscles do less work
• Constructive alignment, a method of devising teaching activities that directly address learning outcomes
• Ontology alignment, the process of determining correspondences between concepts
• Planetary alignment, in astronomy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies

See also

• Unaligned (disambiguation)

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