[n. of action f. prec.; cf. delineation.]
1. = ALINEMENT 1.
1860. Builder, XVIII. 333/2. Even the cross streets … will claim some attention, not only to their width, but their allineation.
1881. Daily Tel., 31 Jan. The magnificent alineation of the New Law Courts.
2. = ALINEMENT 3.
1837. Whewell, Induct. Sc., I. iv. § 1 (L.). The positions are described by means of alineations.
1863. J. Draper, Devel. Europe, vi. (1865), 150. Hipparchus also undertook to make a register of the stars by the method of alineations.
1866. Proctor, Handbk. Stars, Pref. 6. The great advantage … that the allineations of the stars are preserved.
3. The position of two or more bodies in a straight line with a given point, as of two planets in a line with the sun.
1882. Young, Sun, v. 150. In some cases, sun-spot minima have coincided with the allineation of the two planets.
