Alignment may refer to:

Archaeology

Alignment (archaeology) An alignment in archaeology is a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks, in archaeoastronomy the term may refer to an alignment with an astronomically significant point or axis. "Alignment" may also refer to circu ...

, a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks *

Stone alignment A stone row or stone alignment is a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes, usually dating from the later Neolithic or Bronze Age.Power (1997), p.23 Rows may be i ...

, 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, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. Alig ...

, 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 Transfer alignment is the process of initializing and calibrating a missile or torpedo inertial navigation system using data from the host carrier's navigation system A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation sy ...

, 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 Wheel alignment sometimes referred to as breaking, or tracking is part of standard automobile maintenance that consists of adjusting the angles of wheels to the car manufacturer specifications. The purpose of these adjustments is to reduce tire ...

, automobile wheel and suspension angles which affect performance and tire wear

Technology

AI alignment In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), AI alignment research aims to steer AI systems towards their designers’ intended goals and interests. An ''aligned'' AI system advances the intended objective; a ''misaligned'' AI system is compete ...

, the issue of aligning artificial intelligence goal systems with human values *

Alignment level The alignment level in an audio signal chain or on an audio recording is a defined anchor point that represents a reasonable or typical level. It does not represent a particular sound level or signal level or digital representation, but it can b ...

, 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 Data structure alignment is the way data is arranged and accessed in computer memory. It consists of three separate but related issues: data alignment, data structure padding, and packing. The CPU in modern computer hardware performs reads and ...

, 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 Partition alignment is the proper alignment of partitions to the boundaries available in a data storage device. Examples include the following: * 4 KB sector alignment with hard disk drives supporting Advanced Format (AF) * Track partition al ...

, 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 In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between Argument (linguistics), arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs like ''the dog chased the cat'', an ...

, the linguistic system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs *

Parallel text alignment A parallel text is a text placed alongside its translation or translations. Parallel text alignment is the identification of the corresponding sentences in both halves of the parallel text. The Loeb Classical Library and the Clay Sanskrit Libr ...

, the identification of corresponding sentences in original and translated texts *

Typographic alignment In typesetting and page layout, alignment or range is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell, or tab (and often to an image above it or under it). The type alignment setting is sometimes re ...

, placement of printed matter relative to a page, column, margin, etc.

Other forms of alignment

Alignment of random points Alignments of random points in a plane can be demonstrated by statistics to be counter-intuitively easy to find when a large number of randomness, random points are marked on a bounded flat surface. This has been put forward as a demonstration t ...

in statistics representing data points that lie on a relatively straight path * Alignment of the body in a dance hall, see Direction of movement#Basic directions of movement with respect to the room * Chiropractic alignment, another term for

chiropractic Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially of the spine. It has esoteric origins and is based on several pseudosci ...

adjustment *

Constructive alignment Constructive alignment is a principle used for devising teaching and learning activities, and assessment tasks, that directly address the intended learning outcomes (ILOs) in a way not typically achieved in traditional lectures, tutorial classes and ...

, a method of devising teaching activities that directly address learning outcomes *

Ontology alignment Ontology alignment, or ontology matching, is the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies. A set of correspondences is also called an alignment. The phrase takes on a slightly different meaning, in computer science, ...

, the process of determining correspondences between concepts *

Planetary alignment In astronomy, a syzygy ( ; ) is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system. Overview The word is often used in reference to the Sun, Earth, and either the Moon or a planet, where the lat ...

, in astronomy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies

Politics

Alignment (Israel) The Alignment ( he, המערך, HaMa'arakh) was the name of two political alliances in Israel, both of which ended their existence by merging into the Israeli Labor Party. The first Alignment was a 1965 alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda. The tw ...

, political party from 1965 to 1992

Entertainment

Alignment (role-playing games) In some role-playing games (RPGs), alignment is a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game. Not all role-playing games have such a system, and som ...

, the moral and ethical perspective of the characters, monsters, and societies ** Alignment (''Dungeons & Dragons'') * ''

The Alignment ''The Alignment'' is the first studio album by Christian alternative-rock band Samestate, released on February 28, 2012 by Sparrow Records. Critical reception Elise F. of Alpha Omega News wrote that "For a debut, however, ''The Alignment'' was ...

'', a 2012 album by Samestate * Alignments (album)