A 3x3 matrix representing the orientation of a point. The rows of the matrix represent the XYZ axes. These are equivalent to the axes displayed on manipulators when you transform a component in Local mode.
You could use this, for example, if you wanted to place particles at specific offsets from a polygon mesh's points.
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