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Meaning of coordination | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən

Definitions

  1. The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect
  2. The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
    uncountable, usually
  3. Dated spelling of coordination.
    uncountable, usually
  4. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization
  5. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.
    uncountable, usually
  6. The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully
  7. The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.
    uncountable, usually
  8. The state of being equal in rank or power
  9. The state of being equal in rank or power.
    uncountable, usually
  10. An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but
  11. An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
    uncountable, usually
  12. The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.
    uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies.”
“We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.”
“I’m terrible at sports; I have no coordination.”
“There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute co-ordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.”
“There’s a wealth of other complex facts about coordination that could be explored […] coordinations with but are limited to two coordinates […]; yet coordinations with and or with or can have any number of coordinates, with the coordinator preceding just the last one […] or repeated before all except the first […]”
“There has been a satisfactory coördination of the events occurring in widely separated sections, and there has been a competent delineation of differing characters and a vivid presentation of conflicting interests.”
“His was a better, far better, nervous, mental, and muscular coördination.”
“" ...She doesn't have your coördination" & "...in a mindless follow-through, an overflow of coördination"”
“Because the empirical information about the effect on interatomic distances of change in coördination number is not sufficiently extensive for our purpose, we make use of our knowledge of normal covalent radii.”
“But a complete coördination of the latter scale as evidenced in human personality would take, not a short paper, but volumes.”
“Miles, with his marginal gifts of coördination, and Chick... .”
“Chris Sullivan...art department coördination and others...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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