collocation

Meanings

Plural: collocations

Noun

• a grouping of words in a sentence
• the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
• The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
• Such a specific grouping.
• 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.
• A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
• 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.

Synonyms

apposition, juxtaposition

Related Words

actant, co-locating, co-location, collation, collocate, collocative, collocator, compound, idiom, lexicalization, phrase