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1. Causing to fall into line or into position
   "The positioning images look crisper in the advertisement";
   - aligning

1. The act of putting something in a certain place
   - placement, location, locating, position, emplacement

1. Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
    
2. Cause to have a certain (possibly abstract) location
   "position your things here";
   - put, set, place, pose, lay

Derived forms: positionings

See also: orientating, orienting, set out

Type of: activity, displace, move

Encyclopedia: Positioning