noun The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
noun The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
noun the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
noun A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.