EGAVE

collocation

About 0.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
  2. noun Such a specific grouping.
  3. noun A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
  4. noun A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y0(x)+∑l=0qαlyl(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
  5. noun A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.

Similar words

co-location colocation collocate colligation collocability juxtaposition colligability collocator apposition conjuncture

Often followed by

of points method is with and in point methods

Word family

collocational collocations

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