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What is a collocation?

What is a collocation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
  2. (countable) Such a specific grouping.
  3. (linguistics) 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).
  4. (mathematics) A method of determining coefficients in an expansion
  5. (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity.
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In order to make code really, really robust, when you code-review it, you need to have coding conventions that allow collocation.
Workspace and billeting collocation can set the conditions for relationship development.
In Barnbrook's words, colligation refers to collocation patterns that are based on syntactic groups rather than individual words.
This performance reduces interference from other microwave transmitters when collocation is required, according to company officials.
That collocation of ingredients necessarily is attended with harm to the competitive process.
According to the dictionary, collocation is the way words combine in a language to produce natural sounding speech and writing.

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