Also, Coils of pipe may be positioned in an “eye to the side” or “eye to the sky” orientation . When the flexible pipe is coiled and is disposed with its interior channel facing upwards, such that the coil is in a horizontal orientation , then the coils of pipe are referred to as being in an “eye to the sky” orientation . Thanks — the distinction between bearing, heading, and course makes sense to me, although your definition of heading does not agree with jwpat7's. When I clumsily wrote that I was "looking for two words to correctly assign to these physical components of a vehicle," what I meant was, single-word attributes to distinguish between the direction a vehicle was facing, and the actual direction the vehicle was moving in, voluntarily or not. I think " orientation " might work for the former, but I ... People say orientated because they hear the word orientation and think that's the verb made from it. It's called a "back-formation". (See Why are "colleagues" becoming "work colleagues"?). Orientated is accepted as an alternate by most dictionaries I've seen. To orient something comes from the medieval practice of building cathedrals so that the apse, the part of the building that contained the altar, would be on the eastern side (hence orient). (I suppose if they screwed up and got it the ... I frequently see these two words in 3D programming. For example: the direction of the directional light the orientation of camera So, what’s the difference between them?
