AW: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated

From: Jörn Koblitz <koblitz_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Dec 6 12:24:26 2004
Message-ID: <E5E6112EA31FA24CB448E091C6883C052E5E3D_at_server2000.microfab.de>

A google search yielded roughly 15 times as many hits for "oriented" (24.900.000) than for "orientated" (1.480.000). Both are adjectives according to my online dictionary.

May be one hint: I found "orientated" only used in the sense of being "focused" (e.g. market-orientated, customer-orientated, also, market-oriented, customer-oriented), but I could not find "orientated" in the sense of something being "physically aligned" (e.g. there is a term "grain-oriented electrical sheet", but not grain-orientated electrical sheet").

I have the impressed that both terms are correct, but that "orientated" simply isn't used very often.

J?rn


> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de [mailto:bernd.pauli@paulinet.de]
> Gesendet: Montag, 6. Dezember 2004 17:45
> An: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated
>
>
> > Thanks for all the replies. I think I may have the answer.
> > I think it depends on whether or not you are using the
> > word as an adjective, noun, or verb.
>
> Hello Robert and List,
>
> Here are some further examples from my databases:
>
> 1) Borkut: "Elliptical chondrules are orientated" (Catalogue
> of Meteorites)
>
> 2) Canyon City: "The individual 50-100 ? wide alpha-grains of
> the fields
> are differently orientated ..." - BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of
> Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 380-381)
>
> 3) DaG 995: "plagioclase contains small crystallographically
> orientated
> inclusions of augite (Met.Bull. 87, 2003 July, p. A194)
>
> 4) El Carmen: "A single, orientated mass weighing 629 g was found ..."
> (Meteoritics, 1988, 23, p.171)
>
> 5) Lone Tree: "An orientated, ... mass of 20.676 kg was ploughed up"
> (Catalogue of Meteorites)
>
> 6) Mount Margaret: "A single, flight orientated stone was found ..."
> (Catalogue of Meteorites)
>
> 7) A. Fujimura, M. Kato et al. (1983) Preferred orientation
> of phyllosilicate
> (001) in matrix of Murchison meteorite and possible mechanisms of
> generating the orientated texture in chondrites.
> (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 66, 25-32)
>
> 8) Summerfield: "A single orientated stone of 6.2 kg was found ..."
> (Catalogue of Meteorites)
>
> 9) Waka: "A single, orientated mass weighing 11.875 kg was found ..."
> (Met.Bull. 66, Jun 1988, Meteoritics 23-2, 1988, p.173).
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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