Orchestration

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra. uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments wordnet
  3. 3
    A composition that has been orchestrated. countable
  4. 4
    an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect wordnet
  5. 5
    The control of diverse elements. broadly, uncountable

    "It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” by way of The Running Man and Battle Royale, with touches of Survivor and the mass-scale orchestration of The Truman Show."

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  1. 6
    an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band wordnet
  2. 7
    The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services. broadly, uncountable

    "Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section."

Etymology

From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.

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