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Definitions for colligation
col·li·ga·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligationnoun

    the state of being joined together

  2. colligationnoun

    the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis

Wiktionary

  1. colligationnoun

    The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.

  2. colligationnoun

    The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Colligationnoun

    A binding together.

    Etymology: colligatio, Lat.

    These the midwife contriveth into a knot, whence that tortuosity or nodosity, the navel, occasioned by the colligation of vessels. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 5.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Colligationnoun

    a binding together

  2. Colligationnoun

    that process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse

  3. Etymology: [L. colligatio.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of colligation in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of colligation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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