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Meaning of Ordination | Babel Free

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

العربية الرسامة رسامة
Deutsch Ordination Weihe
Ελληνικά χειροτονία
Suomi vihkimys
Français ordination
हिन्दी दीक्षा
Bahasa Indonesia penahbisan
Türkçe ordinasyon

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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