coordination

plural coordinations · alternative co-ordination · alternative coördination

1. uncountableusuallyThe act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.

   Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies.

   1919, Robert W. Chambers, In Secret

2. uncountableusuallyThe resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.

   We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.

   1900, Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country

3. uncountableusuallyThe ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.

   I’m terrible at sports; I have no coordination.

4. uncountableusuallyThe state of being equal in rank or power.

   There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute co-ordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.

   1833 April 10, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “United States of America—Captain B. Hall—Northern and Southern States—Democracy with Slavery—Quakers”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 153

   Synonyms: coordinateness

5. uncountableusuallygrammarAn equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.

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   There’s a wealth of other complex facts about coordination that could be explored […] coordinations with but are limited to two coordinates […]; yet coordinations with and or with or can have any number of coordinates, with the coordinator preceding just the last one […] or repeated before all except the first […]

   2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 85

6. uncountableusuallychemistryThe reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.