Collocation Definition
kŏlō-kāshən
collocations
noun
collocations
A collocating or being collocated; specif., an arrangement, as of words in a sentence.
Webster's New World
An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.
American Heritage
(countable) Such a specific grouping.
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(linguistics, translation studies) The statistically significant collocation of particular words in a language.
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(mathematics) A method of determining coefficients in an expansion so as to nullify the values of an ordinary differential equation at prescribed points.
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Noun
Singular:
collocation
Plural:
collocationsOrigin of Collocation
The technical sense in linguistics was established 1951, although it may have been used this way earlier.
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1605. From Latin collocātiōnem < collocāre. Compare French collocation.
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