A google search yielded roughly 15 times as many hits for "oriented" (24.900.000) than for "orientated" (1.480.000). Both are adjectives according to my online dictionary.
May be one hint: I found "orientated" only used in the sense of being "focused" (e.g. market-orientated, customer-orientated, also, market-oriented, customer-oriented), but I could not find "orientated" in the sense of something being "physically aligned" (e.g. there is a term "grain-oriented electrical sheet", but not grain-orientated electrical sheet"). I have the impressed that both terms are correct, but that "orientated" simply isn't used very often. Jörn > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 6. Dezember 2004 17:45 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: [meteorite-list] Oriented vs orientated > > > > Thanks for all the replies. I think I may have the answer. > > I think it depends on whether or not you are using the > > word as an adjective, noun, or verb. > > Hello Robert and List, > > Here are some further examples from my databases: > > 1) Borkut: "Elliptical chondrules are orientated" (Catalogue > of Meteorites) > > 2) Canyon City: "The individual 50-100 µ wide alpha-grains of > the fields > are differently orientated ..." - BUCHWALD V.F. (1975) Handbook of > Iron Meteorites, Volume 2, pp. 380-381) > > 3) DaG 995: "plagioclase contains small crystallographically > orientated > inclusions of augite (Met.Bull. 87, 2003 July, p. A194) > > 4) El Carmen: "A single, orientated mass weighing 629 g was found ..." > (Meteoritics, 1988, 23, p.171) > > 5) Lone Tree: "An orientated, ... mass of 20.676 kg was ploughed up" > (Catalogue of Meteorites) > > 6) Mount Margaret: "A single, flight orientated stone was found ..." > (Catalogue of Meteorites) > > 7) A. Fujimura, M. Kato et al. (1983) Preferred orientation > of phyllosilicate > (001) in matrix of Murchison meteorite and possible mechanisms of > generating the orientated texture in chondrites. > (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 66, 25-32) > > 8) Summerfield: "A single orientated stone of 6.2 kg was found ..." > (Catalogue of Meteorites) > > 9) Waka: "A single, orientated mass weighing 11.875 kg was found ..." > (Met.Bull. 66, Jun 1988, Meteoritics 23-2, 1988, p.173). > > > Best wishes, > > Bernd > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
