noun ·Moderate ·College level

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Noun

1. 1
   The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders wordnet
3. 3
   The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements wordnet
5. 5
   the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha countable, uncountable

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6. 6
   the status of being ordained to a sacred office wordnet
7. 7
   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. countable, uncountable

   "Coordinate term: cluster analysis"

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acceptanceadjustmentadmissionadmittanceapostolic ordersappointment

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"Coordinate term: cluster analysis"

Etymology

From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.

Related phrases

co-ordinationordination hallordination millself-ordination

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