alignment

[OED]: 1. a. Arrangement in a straight or other determined line; mode of arrangement in lines. concr. A line of things arranged.

alignment

...competent map use includes an understanding of alignment, that is, knowledge of the relation of the self both to the physical world and to the represented world (p 151). ...viewers must ensure that their representations of the map and the world are in alignment in the plane, either by physically turning the map or by mentally rotating one or the other representation (p 151).

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