Definition of "orienting" []

• Present participle of orient. (verb)

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• "Using the war on terror as America's long-term orienting mission, though, generates many problems."
• "As long-term orienting missions, they create many problems."
• "In "Mont Blanc," Shelley remained interested in orienting his readers toward systemic perceptions, but he seems no longer to have believed that representations of motion and activity were the keys to enabling such understandings."