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noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
noun the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
noun (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
originFrom French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.
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