the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers |
the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | the alliance of nations that fought the Axis in World War II and which (with subsequent additions) signed the charter of the United Nations in 1945 |
(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | |
an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | |