Alignment
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Template:Wiktionarypar Alignment is the adjustment of an object in relation with other objects. It has a more specific meaning in some disciplines:
- Typographic alignment, in typesetting, lines of text or images can be aligned left, right, centered or justified.
- Sequence alignment shows similarities between protein or nucleic acid sequences (also in bioinformatics).
- Structural alignment presents similarities in 3D structure of protein molecules.
- Alignment (role-playing games) refers to the moral and ethical perspective of (fictional) characters.
- Wheel alignment in an automobile means adjustment of the toe to improve performance of the car
- Data Structure Alignment, compilers of computer languages may align individual variables to start at certain addresses to speed up memory access
- Parallel text alignment, in artificial intelligence
- Ontology alignment, in heterogeneous knowledge bases, the expression of the correspondences between two ontologies is called ontology alignment
- Body alignment, in sport and dance, the proper placement of the bones so that the muscles do less work
- Morphosyntactic alignment, in linguistics, the grammatical form of the relationship between subject and object
- Ley line, an interpretation of an alignment of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient megaliths. Archaeogeodesy is the study of such alignments.
- In integrated circuit fabrication, alignment is the step in a photolithographic process in which a mask used to pattern a layer of the circuit is registered in its x-y position with respect to the wafer (usually silicon) on which the circuit is being formed.