ordination

From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌoːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: or‧di‧na‧tion

ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)

1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2. (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
3. (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
4. (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.

   Synonym: gradient analysis

   Coordinate term: cluster analysis

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ordination f (plural ordinations)

1. ordination

• “ordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Latin ordinatio

ordination c

1. (medicine) prescription
2. (religion) ordination

• ordinera

• ordination in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker