单词 | ordination |
释义 | ordination/ɔːdɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n![]() noun [mass noun] 1The action of ordaining someone in holy orders: the ordination of women...
1.1 [count noun] A ceremony in which someone is ordained: they travel to Exeter for an ordination...
2 [count noun] chiefly Ecology A statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space.A non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination identified two gradients of species replacement distinguished by differences in forest canopy species and groundcover....
3 literary The action of decreeing or ordaining. OriginLate Middle English (in the general sense 'arrangement in order'): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare 'put in order' (see ordain). |
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