Meanings
plural orchestrations
- uncountableentertainmentThe arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- countableentertainmentA composition that has been orchestrated.
- broadlyuncountableThe control of diverse elements.
It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” by way of The Running Man and Battle Royale, with touches of Survivor and the mass-scale orchestration of The Truman Show.
2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2012 - broadlyuncountablecomputingThe automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.
Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section.
2021, Dhanushka Madushan, Cloud Native Applications with Ballerina […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 130
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchorchestration
- Englishorchestration
From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 配器
- 配器 (pèiqì)arrangement of music for an orchestra
Finnish orkesterisovitus, soitinnus
- orkesterisovitusarrangement of music for an orchestra
- soitinnusarrangement of music for an orchestra
- orkestraatioarrangement of music for an orchestra
- orkestrointiarrangement of music for an orchestra
- orkesterisovituscomposition that has been orchestrated
- orkestraatiocomposition that has been orchestrated
- orkestrointicontrol of diverse elements
Greek ενορχήστρωση, ενορχήστρωση
- ενορχήστρωση (enorchístrosi)arrangement of music for an orchestra
- ενορχήστρωση (enorchístrosi)control of diverse elements
Russian оркестро́вка
- оркестро́вка (orkestróvka)arrangement of music for an orchestra
Spanish orquestación
- orquestaciónarrangement of music for an orchestra
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with orchestration
Cite this entry
orchestration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchestration
“orchestration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchestration. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “orchestration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orchestration.
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