alignment

Other forms of alignment

plural

alignments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alignment

What does alignment mean?

alignment means "an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alignment?

alignment has 3 syllables: a-lign-ment. The stress falls on "lign". In IPA it is /əˈlaɪnmənt/.

What is another word for alignment?

Close synonyms include alliance, coalition, alinement, conjunction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of alignment?

The recorded antonyms are nonalignment.

Is alignment a common word?

alignment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.