collocation

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
2. (countable) Such a specific grouping.
3. (countable, uncountable) 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.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, uncountable) 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

juxtaposition

apposition

placing

colocation

disposal

disposition

distribution

layout

localisation

localization

location

mate

🧉

place

placement

positioning

situation

structure

radication

allocate

multi-word expression

arrangement

compound word

configuration

Translations

collocation

Kollokation

colocación

collocazione

Wortverbindung

düzenleme

Zusammenstellung

Standort

Orten

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌkɒl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier. First attested in 1605.