AW: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Dec 6 17:11:38 2004
Message-ID: <120620042211.8983.41B4D910000148310000231721603762230299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

So would the opposite be occidented or occidentated?

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jörn Koblitz <koblitz_at_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.
>
> Jörn
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche 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 µ 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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