Alignment may refer to:
Archaeology Alignment (archaeology), a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks Stone alignment, a linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones
Biology and wellness Structural alignment, establishing similarities in the 3D structure of protein molecules Sequence alignment, in bioinformatics, arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify similarities Alignment program, software used in sequence alignment Chiropractic alignment, another term for chiropractic adjustment Coital alignment technique, a sex position
Transportation 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, 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, automobile wheel and suspension angles which affect performance and tire wear
Arts and entertainment Music alignment, linking various music representations (sheet music, audio, video, MIDI, etc.) related to a given musical work Alignment level, an audio recording/engineering term for a selected point in the audio that represents a reasonable sound level The Alignment, a 2012 album by Samestate Alignments (album), a 2020 album by Double Experience Alignment (role-playing games), the moral and ethical perspective of the characters, monsters, and societies Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons) Alignment of the body in a dance hall, see Direction of movement#Basic directions of movement with respect to the room
Language and education Morphosyntactic alignment, the linguistic system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs Typographic alignment, placement of printed matter relative to a page, column, margin, etc. Parallel text alignment, the identification of corresponding sentences in original and translated texts Ontology alignment, the process of determining correspondences between concepts Constructive alignment, a method of devising teaching activities that directly address learning outcomes
Other uses in business and computing
Strategic alignment, lining up an organization's strategy with its culture Business–IT alignment, how well an organization is able to use Information Technology to achieve objectives AI alignment, steering artificial intelligence systems towards the intended objective Data structure alignment, arranging data in computer memory to fit machine design, also known more simply as an alignment structure Partition alignment, letting address ranges of hard disk drive partitions start at certain physical boundaries or at multiples of units such as 4 KB or 1 MB
Other uses Alignment of random points in statistics representing data points that lie on a relatively straight path Planetary alignment, in astronomy, a straight line configuration of three celestial bodies Alignment (Israel), political party from 1965 to 1992
See also Realignment (disambiguation) Unaligned (disambiguation)