ordination

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃn̩/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌoːdəˈnæɪʃn̩/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən Hyphenation: or‧di‧na‧tion === Noun === ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations) The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained. (Christianity) The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. (Buddhism) the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha (statistics, ecology) A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this. Synonym: gradient analysis Coordinate term: cluster analysis ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === ordination f (plural ordinations) ordination === Further reading === “ordination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Swedish == === Etymology === From Latin ordinatio === Noun === ordination c (medicine) prescription (religion) ordination ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== ordinera === References === “ordination”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)