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noun Chemistry.

complex (def. 10).

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Also called coordination complex.

Words nearby coordination compound

coordinate geometry, coordinates, coordinate system, coordinating conjunction, coordination, coordination compound, coordination number, coordinator, Coorg, coorie, Coos

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How to use coordination compound in a sentence

In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.
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He scrambled outside to find a 25-foot-wide crater just beyond the mud wall surrounding his family compound.
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Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages.
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They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.
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The Holy City, specifically the al-Aqsa compound, has been the flashpoint for the latest round of conflict.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
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The body of a young woman was found in the compound outside my bungalow, done to death in precisely the same way.
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The compound was washed on the fifth of May, and a grain of gold weighing one and one-half reals was obtained.
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British Dictionary definitions for coordination compound

coordination compound

noun

another name for complex (def. 8)

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