positioning

1. 1.

   the act of putting something in a certain place

   Synonymsplacementlocationlocatingpositionemplacement

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowerstratificationjuxtapositioninterpositionorientationplantingimplantationrepositioningsetsuperpositionfingering

1. 1.

   causing to fall into line or into position

   Synonymsaligning

   Similarorienting

Other forms of positioning

plural

positionings·

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 positioning

What does positioning mean?

positioning means "the act of putting something in a certain place". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in positioning?

positioning has 4 syllables: po-sit-io-ning. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /pəˈzɪʃənɪŋ/.

What is another word for positioning?

Close synonyms include placement, location, locating, position, emplacement. 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.

Is positioning a common word?

positioning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with positioning?

1 word rhymes with positioning. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.