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coordination

  • noun
  • co·or·di·na·tion
  • /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/

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

Other meanings

  1. The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.

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

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

Related words

  • discoordination
  • dyscoordination
  • heterocoordination
  • hexacoordination
  • hypercoordination
  • microcoordination
  • miscoordination
  • multicoordination
  • overcoordination
  • pentacoordination
  • postcoordination
  • precoordination

Word history

From Latin "coōrdinātiōnem".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “coordination” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.