Colligation vs. Collocation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Colligation and Collocation
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Colligation
To tie or group together.
Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation is a type of compositional phraseme, meaning that it can be understood from the words that make it up.
Colligation
(Logic) To bring (isolated facts) together by an explanation or hypothesis that applies to them all.
Collocation
The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.
Colligation
A binding together.
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Collocation
An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.
Colligation
(logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.
Collocation
(uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
Colligation
(linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.
Collocation
(countable) Such a specific grouping.
Colligation
A binding together.
Collocation
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.
Colligation
That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse.
Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation.
Collocation
(mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation by determining coefficients in an expansion so as to make vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
Colligation
The state of being joined together
Collocation
(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.
Colligation
The connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
Collocation
The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
The choice and collocation of words.
Collocation
A combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called stable collocation. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations.
Collocation
A grouping of words in a sentence
Collocation
The act of positioning close together (or side by side);
It is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
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