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coordination

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən//
  • Canada//koʊˌoɹdɪˈneɪʃən//
  • Australia//kəʉˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃən//
  • New Zealand//kɐʉˌoːdəˈnæɪʃən//

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

noun

  1. 1

    The 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.

  2. 2

    The 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.

  3. 3

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

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

  4. 4

    The 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.

  5. 5

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

    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 […]

  6. 6

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

Etymology

From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coōrdinātiōnem (accusative of coōrdinātiō), from con- + ōrdinātiō. Morphologically coordinate + -ion.

Forms

plural
coordinations
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).