ordination
nounUK /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ · CA, US /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/
Etymology From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
1
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2
Christianity The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
4
Biology, Ecology, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Sciences, Statistics 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
- Derived terms
- co-ordination, misordination, nonordination, ordination hall, ordination mill, self-ordination