Terms of orientation
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In linguistics, terms of orientation, terms of location, or spatial words are common descriptors used to indicate the spatial positioning of objects in three-dimensional space, including notions of to
A ping pong ball is a typical example of an object that has no set top, bottom, front, back, or sides.
Pebbles found on the beach have irregular shapes, but no set top, bottom, front, back, or sides.
Sugar cubes also have no set top, bottom, front, back, or sides; they may be provisionally assigned these characteristics.
Cones of the Korean fir have a clearly discernible top and bottom, but are not clearly differentiated along other dimensions.
Body-relative direction
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Body-relative directions are geometrical directions relative to an object such as a person's body or a road sign.
Terms of orientation
…separate terminology is used to describe the sides of things. For example, proper right and proper left are conceptual terms used to unambiguously convey relative direction when describing an image or other object. The "proper right" hand of a figure is the hand that would be regarded by that figure as its right hand. In…
A non-flopped image of a right-handed Cartesian coordinate system, illustrating the x (left to right), y (backward to forward) and z (down to up) coordinate axes relative to a human being
This statue holds a sword in its proper right hand.
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