0 to put two or more things into a straight line, or to form a straight line: --
1 to be the same or similar, or to agree with each other; to make two things do this: --
The superpowers force smaller countries to align behind them in rival blocs.
As a musician, he aligned himself with the avant-garde.
The country's leading intellectuals tend to be aligned with the opposition.
In the first decade of the union, economic growth among member countries was generally aligned.
The job of an IT business analyst is to align IT systems with changing business needs.
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3 to change something so that it has a correct relationship to something else: --
For these experiments, an ion beam with a 2-mm diameter aligned exactly to the channel axis was used to prepare the ionization channel.
In other words, our personal moral convictions are not so badly aligned with general welfare that it would be better if they did not exist.
This assists folding since most helices in the folded state tend to be aligned.
If the conscious ascription of a mental state is necessary for alignment, then people will only align if they perform such ascriptions.
To this end, astrocyte cultures have been aligned through exposure to electric fields of physiological strength.
I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.
The horizontal dashed lines have been aligned with the intersections of the 520and 650-nm lines and the four spectral-sensitivity functions.
I aligned the metrical sequences obtained from the traditional repertoire against this tune to establish yet another parameter for metrical fit.