Polyword vs. Collocation — What's the Difference?

(linguistics) A phrase that acts like a single word.

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.

The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.

An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.

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

(countable) Such a specific grouping.

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.

(mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation $L[y]=0$ by determining coefficients in an expansion $y(x)\; =\; y\_\{0\}(x)\; +\; \backslash sum\_\{l=0\}^\{q\}\backslash alpha\_\{l\}\; y\_\{l\}(x)$ so as to make $L[y]$ vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.

(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.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.

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.

A grouping of words in a sentence

The act of positioning close together (or side by side);