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   ordination

   /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the action of ordaining someone in holy orders: "the ordination of women"
   • ▪ a ceremony in which someone is ordained: "they travel to Exeter for an ordination"
   • 2. a statistical technique in which data from a large number of sites or populations are represented as points in a multidimensional space.
   • 3. the action of decreeing or ordaining. literary

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the general sense ‘arrangement in order’): from Latin ordinatio(n-), from Latin ordinare ‘put in order’ (see ordain).

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