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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coordination
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
well
▪ The need for better coordination can not be overstated.
▪ It is vital that a reformulated strategy be built upon better intelligence gathering and better coordination of intelligence between agencies.
▪ All these examples, they thought, simply highlighted the need for better coordination.
■ NOUN
market
▪ Quite apart from market failure, another reason for rejecting unregulated market coordination is the inequality of social outcomes it produces.
▪ The claim here is not just that market coordination is necessarily anarchic.
▪ Another area where there has been an advance of market coordination in the 1980s is the public sector.
▪ But whichever approach one adopts, market coordination has characteristics which differentiate it from hierarchies and networks.
▪ However, it is important to appreciate that market coordination could not function in the absence of the other modes of coordination.
■ VERB
improve
▪ It has improved coordination, secured better value for money and encouraged programmes which tackle problems on a number of fronts.
▪ For exam-ple, the corporation has formed numerous cross-cutting, cross-functional teams to improve coordination between the functional silos.
▪ Lateral communication improves coordination and problem solving and fosters employee satisfaction.
provide
▪ The first such resolution is designed to provide coordination and guidance to the specialist, appropriations and tax-writing committees.
▪ The Evaluation Officer provides leadership and coordination for the evaluation of the Course and is the editor of Feedback.
require
▪ In practice, fertilisation requires tight coordination between the sperm and the oocyte.
▪ As you would expect, that approach required lots of telephone coordination, paperwork, and going to and fro.
▪ This new behavior requires hand-mouth coordination, an ability that the infant does not have during the first month.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sam's coordination is still not a hundred percent after the accident.
▪ Sue will be responsible for the coordination of sales and marketing activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between the fourth and eighth months, coordination of vision and touch typically occurs for the first time.
▪ Central coordination would keep the location of industry in step with development.
▪ Downward coordination through written rules and orders; upward communication of experience by reporting progress in meetings.
▪ Even more precise coordination will be necessary.
▪ Galbraith identifies seven basic strategies for dealing with the need to process increasing amounts of information in complex coordination.
▪ His balance and coordination may be poor.
▪ The first such resolution is designed to provide coordination and guidance to the specialist, appropriations and tax-writing committees.
▪ The North have both the motivation and the coordination behind the scrum to brush aside a rebuilt Midlands team.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coordination

Coordination \Co*["o]r`di*na"tion\, n.

  1. The act of co["o]rdinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the co["o]rdination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a co["o]rdination of functions. ``Co["o]rdination of muscular movement by the cerebellum.''
    --Carpenter.

  2. The state of being co["o]rdinate, or of equal rank, dignity, power, etc.

    In this high court of parliament, there is a rare co["o]rdination of power.
    --Howell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coordination

also co-ordination, c.1600, "orderly combination," from French coordination (14c.) or directly from Late Latin coordinationem (nominative coordinatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin coordinare "to set in order, arrange," from com- "together" (see com-) + ordinatio "arrangement," from ordo "order" (see order (n.)). Meaning "action of setting in order" is from 1640s; that of "harmonious adjustment or action," especially of muscles and bodily movements, is from 1855.

Wiktionary
coordination

n. 1 the act of coordinate, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect. 2 the resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization 3 the ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully. 4 (context possibly archaic English) the state of being equal in rank or power. 5 (context grammar English) an equal joining together two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using ''and'', ''or'', or ''but''. 6 (context chemistry English) The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound

WordNet
coordination
  1. n. the skillful and effective interaction of movements [ant: incoordination]

  2. the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation

  3. the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form

Wikipedia
Coordination

Coordination may refer to:

  • Coordination (linguistics), a compound grammatical construction
  • Language coordination, the tendency of people to mimic the language of others
  • Coordination (political culture), a Utopian form of political regime
  • Motor coordination, in animal motion
  • A chemical reaction to form a coordination complex
Coordination (human motion)
Coordination (linguistics)

In linguistics, coordination is a frequently occurring complex syntactic structure that links together two or more elements, known as conjuncts or conjoins. The presence of coordination is often signaled by the appearance of a coordinator ( coordinating conjunction), e.g. and, or, but (in English). The totality of coordinator(s) and conjuncts forming an instance of coordination is called a coordinate structure. The unique properties of coordinate structures have motivated theoretical syntax to draw a broad distinction between coordination and subordination. Coordination is one of the most studied fields in theoretical syntax, but despite decades of intensive examination, theoretical accounts differ significantly and there is no consensus about the best analysis.

Usage examples of "coordination".

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

This includes difficulties in memory, speech, and coordination, due to brain oxygen starvation in the orbital gyri of both frontal lobes, as well as the cerebral choroid plexus.

Twenty-four separate coordination hubs were arranged in three rows, circles of consoles with fifteen operators apiece.

We believe there is otherwise lost information here about arbitration management and interrace coordination.

When we are ill there is a failure of coordination at one or more levels in these hierarchies, and the clarification of the relation of body to mind and psychosomatic illness requires a hierarchical approach.

One quick swipe would knock its microcameras out of alignment, and probably destroy the fine tuning on its coordination.

At the cellular level the morphogenetic field orders the crystallization of microtubules and other processes which are necessary for the coordination of cell division.

Although the British and Americans landed on different sections of the coast, a close coordination was maintained between upper levels of command, and the two navies got along so well that a more intimate intermingling could be attempted in the next operation.

Despite how widely separated many of the launching pods were, their coordination was flawless.

She tried to slide her athame back under her sash, but the effort of her art had robbed her of the necessary coordination.

Then the two gawks were moving, but with poor coordination and maddeningly slow.

The man was huge, but he was panicked, thrashing around with little coordination.

I blew it out, let my head turn to the side, breathed stinky air, bubbled out stale beneath the water, turned again, breathed, while light coiled in rippled streaks, and I was borne up, my limbs drawing me forward, gliding, more bird in sky than fish in creek, with smooth coordination, a grace.

I zoomed in closer on the markings to see if I could detect human or android fingerprints, only to be bumped out of focus by Coroner Wilkins, an old man whose vision and coordination had both seen better decades.

But Charon's hand-eye coordination wasn't what it used to be since his change back to human, and the medications were way too good at ballsing them up even more.