ordination
UK /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ US /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/
noun 4
Definitions
noun
1
The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
2
The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
3
the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
4
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.
Coordinate term: cluster analysis
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