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ordination

Pronunciation: /ɔːdɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
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Definition of ordination

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the action of ordaining someone in holy orders: the ordination of women
  • [count noun] a ceremony in which someone is ordained: they travel to Exeter for an ordination
  • 2 [count noun] chiefly Ecology a statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space.
  • 3 literary the action of decreeing or ordaining.

Origin:

late Middle English (in the general sense 'arrangement in order'): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare 'put in order' (see ordain)

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