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Ordination

Noun CEFR B2
ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩

Definitions

  1. The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  2. The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
  3. the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
  4. 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.

Equivalents

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Ελληνικάχειροτονία
हिन्दीदीक्षा
Bahasa Indonesiapenahbisan
Latinaordinatio
Türkçeordinasyon

Examples

Coordinate term: cluster analysis

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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