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:''For other uses, see orientation.''
'Orientation' means direction of some axis or vector or pseudo-vector.
It can be orientation of an arrow of a compass, or orientaiton of the director in the nematic liquid crystal,
as orientation of an electric or magnetic dipole, etc.
For rigid objects, the orientation cannot be described with a single direction; the directions of at least two orthogonal axes, fixed to the body, are needed; these directions can be represented, for instance, by an orientation matrix or by Euler angles (see orientation (geometry)).
The direction of a real vector field also can be considered as orientation. See Orientation (mathematics).