collocation

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Hence, when sufficient energy to account for any effect cannot be found in the inciting power, or manifestly active condition, we must look for it in the collocation which is often supposed to be passive And that reminds us of another common misapprehension, namely, that in Nature some things are passive and others active: the distinction between 'agent' and 'patient.'

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  1. noun The act of collocating or the state of being collocated.
  2. noun An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious.

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  • That's the only reference I can find on mefi for "done heard" as a collocation. —  MetaTalk
  • In another development, the Senate Committee on Communications has in Abuja, commended the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and the phone operators including Etisalat Nigeria, for improvements in the quality of service recorded in the sector in the past year, and the ability of the operators to adopt collocation which has contributed in service roll out.
  • GalaxyVisions, Inc. is a full service company providing managed, dedicated, collocation, and shared web services at competitive industry rates with high levels of network availability, 24 / 7 / 365 support, and is conveniently located in Brooklyn, NY just 5 minutes from Manhattan. —  PRWeb
  • Earlier research showed that it is possible to automatically identify words that are semantically similar to a given word based on the syntactic collocation patterns of the words. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Since 1996, Hosting. com, the First Name in Hosting, has provided award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, collocation, disaster recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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  1. = French collocation = Spanish colocacion = Portuguese collocação = Italian collocazione, from Latin collocatio(n-), from collocare: see collocate, v.
 

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/kɑləˈkeɪʃən/
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