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Ordination

//ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩// noun

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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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  1. 6
    the status of being ordained to a sacred office wordnet
  2. 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"

Etymology

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

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