collocation

1. (uncountable)The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.

   Zusammenstellung

   a grouping of words in a sentence

2. (countable)Such a specific grouping.

3. (countable, uncountable)A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.

   Kollokation, Wortverbindung

   словосочета́ниеslovosočetánije

   словосполу́ченняslovospolúčennja, колока́ціяkolokácija

4. (countable, uncountable)A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.

5. (countable, uncountable)A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.

1. Learning collocations is one step towards sounding like a native speaker.

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2. A collocation consists of words that are often found together.

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3. That's not a common collocation in French.

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