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ordination en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/ (Canada, General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/ (Australia)
  • /ˌoːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
  3. (countable, uncountable) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
  4. (countable, uncountable) 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.
    • Coordinate term: cluster analysis

Forms

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Deriveds

misordination · ordination mill · nonordination · self-ordination · ordination hall · co-ordination

Synonyms

gradient analysis

Translations (36)

nb ordinasjon (act of ordaining) · hu felszentelés (act of ordaining) · cs vysvěcení (act of ordaining) · nn ordinasjon (ceremony) · mi whakawahinga (act of ordaining) · mi whakaminitatanga (act of ordaining) · ar رِسامة (ceremony) · mi whakapīhopatanga (act of ordaining) · sv ordination (act of ordaining) · bg разпореждане (act of ordaining) · nb ordinasjon (ceremony) · fr ordination (ceremony) · pl święcenia (ceremony) · bg ръкополагане (ceremony) · uk висвя́чення (ceremony) · mi whakapirititanga (ceremony) · cs svěcení (ceremony) · la teleta (ceremony) · id penahbisan (act of ordaining) · nn ordinasjon (act of ordaining) · es ordinación (ceremony) · fr ordination (act of ordaining) · el χειροτονία (act of ordaining) · mi whakaminitatanga (ceremony) · es ordenación (ceremony) · mi whakapirititanga (act of ordaining) · id penahbisan (ceremony) · es ordinación (act of ordaining) · pt ordenação (ceremony) · ang hādung (ceremony) · mi whakarīkonatanga (act of ordaining) · ru рукоположе́ние (ceremony) · tl ordenasyon (ceremony) · sv prästvigning (ceremony) · el χειροτονία (ceremony) · es ordenación (act of ordaining)