alignment

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about alignment at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

1. An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty.
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.