collocation
Americannoun
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collocations
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the act of collocating.
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the state or manner of being collocated.
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the arrangement, especially of words in a sentence.
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Linguistics. a co-occurrence of lexical items, as perform with operation or commit with crime.
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Origin of collocation
1595–1605; < Latin collocātiōn- (stem of collocātiō ), equivalent to collocāt ( us ) ( see collocate) + -iōn- -ion
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Also, “hyperscalers and collocation companies are expected to invest about $7 trillion in data center infrastructure globally over the course of 2025 to 2030, with about $800 billion going towards electrical equipment and mechanical equipment.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Linguists call it collocation: the likelihood of two words occurring together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2016
It’s a work of journalism that never felt like journalism, a collocation of short quotes, a book that’s both joyful and angry, a book to get lost in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2016
Notably, the script used to analyze the texts relied on modified versions of four of the Natural Language Toolkit’s prepackaged modules: the word tokenizer, part of speech tagger, WordNetLemmatizer, and collocation finder.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2012
The collocation, in this case, was piquant enough to beget a clever pasquinade, which was chalked up at street corners in Paris.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations can not be reduced to any law.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
The conditions and collocations of the reals change constantly, but the reals themselves are unchangeable.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
The allusion to my brother Wilky's vividly independent verbal collocations and commentative flights re-echoes afresh, for instance, as one of the fond by-words that spoke most of our whole humorous harmony.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
Its houses are not grouped according to size and character, but dropped as it were anyhow, in chance collocations, tall and low, thatched and slated together.
From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine
But collocations of stars are by no means limited to two.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
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