placement vs orientation

orientation vs placement

placement and orientation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
placement	Yes	No	No	No
orientation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, orientation is a hyponym of placement; that is, orientation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than placement:

placement: the act of putting something in a certain place
orientation: the act of orienting

Other hyponyms of placement include stratification, apposition, collocation, juxtaposition, interposition, intervention, planting, implantation, repositioning, set, superposition, fingering, superposition, temporalization.

placement (noun)	orientation (noun)
the act of putting something in a certain place	the act of orienting
contact established between applicants and prospective employees	a course introducing a new situation or environment
the spatial property of the way in which something is placed	an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
	a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
	a predisposition in favor of something
	position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

Difference between placement and orientation

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