AW: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated

[joseph_town 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 at 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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