ordination
- 01 C1 Advanced
the official ceremony where a person is made a priest, minister, or monk.
the formal act or ceremony of conferring holy orders or consecrating a person for religious ministry.
Simple“The whole family traveled to the cathedral to attend his ordination as a priest.”
In context“Following years of rigorous theological study, her ordination represented both a personal milestone and a significant shift in the parish's leadership structure.”
UsageOften used with 'of' to indicate the person being ordained.
Synonymsconsecrationappointment - 02 C2 Proficiency
a way of organizing a lot of information into a chart to see patterns, often used in nature studies.
a multivariate statistical technique that arranges items along axes to visualize similarities or differences within complex datasets.
Simple“The researchers used ordination to show how different plants grow in different parts of the forest.”
In context“By applying non-metric multidimensional scaling as an ordination method, the ecologists were able to visualize how species composition shifted across the environmental gradient.”
UsageCommonly used in the fields of ecology, biology, and statistics.
Synonymsgradient analysismultidimensional scaling
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.