orienteer
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- noun
- /ˌɔːriənˈtɪr/
- In our sample, the adult orienteers often came from technical fields, whereas adult non-orienteers were largely college students who may have had less technical background.
- orienteers and non
- orienteers versus non
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And finally, orienteers who had more experience did better than orienteers who had less experience.
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As reported in the second part of the analysis, within the orienteer sample there was a difference between less and more experienced individuals.
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Performance of the orienteers was similar for the three modes.
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Beginning orienteers generally have clues that are written as phrases or single words.
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A clue sheet is a listing of the features that an orienteer is supposed to find sequentially in the woods.
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Among the orienteers, people recognized orienteering items with pretty much the same accuracy across the three methods.
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Orienteers, who had more experience with the definitions, words, and symbols used, did better than non-orienteers did.
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Murakoshi (1994) showed that experienced orienteers more accurately reported information about map features, such as their size.
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We approached participants who were recruited at orienteering events (orienteers) individually and asked them to participate in a short survey about orienteering.
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Davis is the top-ranked female orienteer in my home state.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orienteer comes from orient, a word that once meant 'east' or 'to face the sunrise' and later came to mean 'to find direction', as in orientation. So an orienteer is a person who finds their way across land using a map and compass.