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means A session or process that gets you familiar with a new place, job, or situation — and, separately, the direction something faces or the way someone's deeper preferences lean.

from Traces back to Latin 'oriens,' the rising sun, the same root that gives us 'orient' (the East). To 'orient' something originally meant literally positioning it to face east — the direction churches were traditionally built to point, toward sunrise and Jerusalem. From there it widened to mean figuring out which way anything faces, then figuring out where YOU stand relative to your surroundings — and by the 20th century, 'orientation' had drifted comfortably indoors to mean the briefing that's supposed to stop you getting lost on your first day.