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colligation

noun

Etymology

From Latin colligātiō. By surface analysis, colligate + -ion.

  1. borrowed from colligātiō

Definitions

  1. A binding together.

    • Near-synonyms: ligation, ligature

  2. The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.

    • Induction is a term applied to describe the process of a true Colligation of Facts by means of an exact and appropriate Conception.
    • the colligation of facts
    • In order to have knowledge of the physical world, we use our ideas and concepts as the "thread" on which we string the facts about the world, the "pearls." We do this by a process Whewell called colligation.

  3. The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.

The neighborhood

Derived

colligational

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for colligation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA