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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coordinate
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coordinating conjunction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ We will support the creation by the police of new Racial attacks Squads to monitor and coordinate action against racially-motivated attacks.
▪ The fifth major activity of political parties is to coordinate the actions of the government.
▪ Getting dressed consists of a complex sequence of movements depending on the patient's ability to balance and coordinate his actions.
▪ The only way to end piracy is to set up a system of coordinated action by naval police.
activity
▪ Bodies wishing to be consulted must leave the umbrella committee established to coordinate activity against the Moscow decision on trusteeship.
▪ Democrats have sought the subpoenas to determine whether the organizations abused their tax-exempt status by coordinating political activities with the Republican Party.
▪ The different local councils coordinate their activities with varying regularity and a number of national meetings have taken place.
▪ The ability to coordinate several activities at once and to quickly analyze and resolve specific problems is important.
▪ As David Browning points out, practitioners from health and social services will need to coordinate their assessment activities.
▪ Managers coordinate the activities of their unit with other units or organizations.
▪ He then endeavoured to coordinate activities through an underground body called the Communist Group.
▪ One of the fundamental problems of social organization is how to coordinate the economic activities of large numbers of individuals and businesses.
effort
▪ In fact, the new conditions of work require a coordinated effort and activities that are much more proactive and far-reaching.
▪ Its critics say it left without establishing a means of coordinating relief efforts.
▪ Today, you need a coordinated effort to help you achieve success.
▪ Cambridge University is to coordinate an international effort to find out how the Chernobyl disaster caused a huge increase in child cancer.
▪ Locally, school-to-work is being coordinated with other workforce-development efforts through new regional employment boards.
▪ No single government agency is coordinating the cleanup effort.
▪ C., in a coordinated lobbying effort.
group
▪ Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
▪ Quarmby will now be responsible for business development and managing director of group services, coordinating services to all group companies.
▪ At the point of final sales too, trading companies coordinate the activities of group members in retail distribution.
policy
▪ In either case collectivism is an important rock on which attempts to coordinate opposition to growth-first policies have foundered.
▪ The main community-relations agencies maintain a central council through which they coordinate their policies.
work
▪ He has set up a science and technology management group within the DoI which coordinates the work of its different divisions.
▪ To coordinate this work, the existing nuclei of these parties must be brought together in an international organization.
▪ Pupils learn to work together accept delegation of certain tasks and coordinate their work.
▪ They will fund up to 90 percent of the research in some areas and will coordinate the work through a new directorate.
▪ It has coordinated selected work already under way and proceeds to develop new research initiatives and channel resources to them.
▪ There were also problems in coordinating the work of the three different groups or shifts.
■ VERB
plan
▪ There is a need for the establishment of a managerial system to plan, coordinate and control the exhibition mix.
▪ Electronic data processing managers direct, plan, and coordinate data processing activities.
▪ These activities are planned and coordinated with parking lot owners.
▪ Ten staffers work directly for the Dodgers in planning community relations and coordinating this year's team-wide efforts.
▪ No central person or religious organization planned or coordinated it; no single plot unfolded.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her movements on the balance beam were perfectly coordinated.
▪ The Red Cross is coordinating relief aid to the refugees.
▪ This gingham wallpaper coordinates with the floral pattern on the bedspread.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cambridge University is to coordinate an international effort to find out how the Chernobyl disaster caused a huge increase in child cancer.
▪ Here, an instrument, the means to an end, is coordinated with a pre-established goal....
▪ Its critics say it left without establishing a means of coordinating relief efforts.
▪ The all-seasons garden aims to coordinate these effects, to achieve the best possible year-round interest.
▪ They direct and coordinate activities of deans of individual colleges and chairpersons of academic departments.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cartesian
▪ The Cartesian coordinates which result from this transformation describe a space which is tangential to the curved space at the point selected.
▪ Such inconsistencies make it impossible to cover a spherical surface using Cartesian coordinates.
▪ It is always possible, even in free fall, to obtain non-vanishing metric connections by choosing Gaussian rather than Cartesian coordinates.
■ NOUN
system
▪ Equations between tensors have the property that they remain valid under the general transformations between Gaussian coordinate systems in curved space-time.
▪ Elective 2: size of the printed map in terms of the map coordinate system.
■ VERB
give
▪ These two numbers give us coordinates for points on a plane-the Argand plane.
use
▪ Such inconsistencies make it impossible to cover a spherical surface using Cartesian coordinates.
▪ Applying these results for the Schwarzschild metric when using spherical polar coordinates gives.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The teacher gave the children coordinates to locate on the globe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And once he had the coordinates of danger, the space on either side should be safe.
▪ Mayer, the mapmaker, worked in Nuremberg, nailing down precise coordinates for the productions of the Homann Cartographic Bureau.
▪ The exact coordinates of the activated areas and their significance levels are given in Table 1.
III.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The coordinate clauses in this sentence are joined by "and."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Figure 4.23 A right-handed coordinate system.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
coordinate

co-ordinate \co-ordinate\, coordinate \co*["o]r"di*nate\(-n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Co["o]rdinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Co["o]rdinating.]

  1. To make co["o]rdinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to co["o]rdinate ideas in classification.

  2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to co["o]rdinate muscular movements.

  3. to be co-ordinated; as, These activities co-ordinate well.

    Syn: coordinate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coordinate

1640s, "of the same order," from Medieval Latin coordinatus, past participle of coordinare "to set in order, arrange" (see coordination). Meaning "involving coordination" is from 1769. Related: Coordinance.

coordinate

1823, in the mathematical sense, especially with reference to the system invented by Descartes; from coordinate (adj.). Hence, coordinates as a means of determining a location on the earth's surface (especially for aircraft), attested by 1960.

coordinate

1660s, "to place in the same rank," from Latin coordinare (see coordination). Meaning "to arrange in proper position" (transitive) is from 1847; that of "to work together in order" (intransitive) is from 1863. Related: Coordinated; coordinating.

Wiktionary
coordinate

  1. Of the same rank; equal. n. 1 (context mathematics cartography English) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure. 2 Something that is equal to another thing. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To synchronize (activities). 2 (context transitive English) To match (objects, especially clothes).

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WordNet
coordinate

  1. adj. of equal importance, rank, or degree

  2. [also: co-ordinating, co-ordinates, co-ordinated,

  3. co-ordinate]
coordinate

  1. v. bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize my files?" [syn: organize, organise]

  2. bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts"

  3. be co-ordinated; "These activities co-ordinate well"

  4. bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate]

  5. [also: co-ordinating, co-ordinates, co-ordinated,

  6. co-ordinate]
coordinate

  1. n. a number that identifies a position relative to an axis [syn: co-ordinate]

  2. [also: co-ordinating, co-ordinates, co-ordinated,

  3. co-ordinate]
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Wikipedia
Coordinate (disambiguation)

Coordinate may refer to:

  • An element of a coordinate system in geometry and related domains
    • Coordinate space in mathematics
    • Cartesian coordinates
    • Coordinate (vector space)
    • Geographic coordinate system
  • Coordinate structure in linguistics
  • Coordinate bond in chemistry
  • Coordinate descent, an algorithm
Related phrases:

Usage examples of "coordinate".

He punched up the new navigation coordinates, and checked his afterburner fuel reserve.

Appointed by Mother Aglee as Overlady of Five, charged with coordinating the peaceful integration of the aliens into the life of the planet, she sought out Bertt, explained all to him, asked respectfully for his assistance.

He would then pass these coordinates to Dotensk, who would in turn give the information to Kamil for his Amn AI-Khass hunter teams.

The GPS grid coordinates you gave me, I gave to Kamil, and he called his Amn AI-Khass detachment commander right there at the border outpost.

We sit side-by-side on the sofa watching the calm, perfectly-coifed anchorperson coordinate her own commentary with cuts to correspondents in various parts of North America and abroad.

A Central Planning Council, on which he sat, determined the proper economic mix and crops grown, coordinating with other Anchors as well, but otherwise the farms were communally held and run affairs, autonomous and sharing in the profits by getting what they wanted or needed from other communes in exchange for what they produced.

It contained over two million sets of alleged portal coordinates, implying more than one million arteria, presumably linked in a single enormous network.

I want you to coordinate the astrometeorological and photoradiographic sections.

But Bracewell thought that a space probe might send us a star map, and since the stars are placed at random in the sky the delay times could be graphical coordinates.

He utilized the underwater telephone to coordinate this process with the USS Billfish, and soon afterward the Avalon was free from its mother vessel and totally on its own.

Makiem have effectively allied and coordinated with the Cebu and the Agitar.

The Marine plan, which called for coordination among multiple commands, was overly complicated and badly coordinated.

Of course, he would be able, computerlike, to judge where the section would end, and so end the song at the right place to coordinate.

The woodwork was white, the counters red, and a window seat built into a side bay was filled with plump pillows and a neatly folded quilt, all in coordinating hues.

For a vehicle intended to deorbit and deliver them to a specific ground coordinate with only a fifty-meter margin of error, the whole arrangement seemed totally inadequate.