coördinate

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What we have said on breathing is based on the premise that respiration involves coördinate action of the body from collar-bone to the base of the abdomen; that is, expanding and contracting the chest and abdomen simultaneously.

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  1. To place or class in the same order, division, rank, etc.; make coördinate.
  2. To place, arrange, or set in due order or proper relative position; bring into harmony or proper connection and arrangement. The different parts of each being must be co-ordinated in such a manner as to render the total being possible. Whewell. This task of specifying and classifying the concretes of Experience is the purpose of Science; and Metaphysics, accepting the generalized results thus reached in the several departments of research, coördinates them into a system. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. iv. § 97.
  3. Specifically, to combine in consistent and harmonious action, as muscles. Thinking is an active process; it is one mode of conduct, and therefore its perfection must consist in the harmony with which its various actions are co-ordinated to its proper end. Mivart, Nature and Thought, p. 12.

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  1. from Middle Latin coordinatus, past participle of coordinare (later Italian coordinare = Spanish coordinar = Portuguese coordenar = French coordonner, for *coordiner), arrange together, from Latin co-, together, + ordinare, arrange: see co-, and ordain, ordinate.
  2. = Spanish coordinado = Portuguese coordenado = Italian coordinato, from Middle Latin coordinatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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