Parallelisation and Alignment

noun

• An organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty.
  • synonyms: alliance, coalition, alinement
• The spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines.
• Astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac.
  • synonyms: conjunction
• The act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other. .

• (n.) The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; especially, an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
• (n.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.