orientational
Adjective
Meaning
orientational (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to orientation.
Examples
A second rank symmetric traceless tensor order parameter is used to describe the orientational order of a nematic liquid crystal, although a scalar order parameter is usually sufficient to describe uniaxial nematic liquid crystals.
Cultural systems Parsons maintained had an independent status from that of the normative and orientational pattern of the social system; the one system cannot be reduced to the other.
It should be clear that the multiplication rule used for the orientational symbols is not the same as that for the cross product of two vectors.
More importantly, the orientational information is lost.
Siano further shows that the orientational symbols have an algebra of their own.
The model utilizes two order parameters that describe the orientational and positional order of the liquid crystal.