Collocation

Quick meaning: Collocation is a noun meaning (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.

Meaning

(uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Such a specific grouping.
2. (computing) 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.
3. (linguistics, translation studies) 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. (mathematics) 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.

Example Sentences

Little and few are also incomplete negatives; note the frequent collocation with no: there is little or no danger.

I propose to bring forward as a technical term, meaning by ‘collocation’, and to apply the test of ‘collocability’.

Everything in fact depends in Chinese on the proper collocation of words in a sentence. Thus ngò tà ni means “I beat thee;” but ni tà ngò would mean “Thou beatest me.”

Collocations of a given word are statements of the habitual or customary places of that word in a collocational order but not in any other contextual order and emphatically not in grammatical order

Word Forms

• collocations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include co-location, colocation, collocate, colligation, collocability, juxtaposition.

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