"alignments" in the noun sense
1. alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement
an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
2. alignment
the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
3. conjunction, alignment
astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
4. alignment
the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
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