orienting

IPA: ˈɔriɛntɪŋ

positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually

Examples of "orienting" in Sentences

As long-term orienting missions, they create many problems.
Using the war on terror as America's long-term orienting mission, though, generates many problems.
The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.
We asked the same thing as well and there's something known as the orienting reflex and this is the sort of possibility of why it leads to ADD.
Surprise stimuli trigger what is known as the orienting response in which the heart rate increases, the nervous system is more aroused and we pay intense attention to a new item in our environment.
In "Mont Blanc," Shelley remained interested in orienting his readers toward systemic perceptions, but he seems no longer to have believed that representations of motion and activity were the keys to enabling such understandings.